The Latest Breaking News from infectious disease

Stoke-on-Trent grandmother Wendy Hayes explained she still has guilt about having to put down her five family dogs after a rescue dog was carrying a rare infectious disease

According to infectious diseases experts, future surges and strains of COVID-19 are still a risk as the winter wave eases.

After news broke that the U.S. declared monkeypox to be a public health emergency, friends and family started asking me, an infectious disease epidemiologist, if monkeypox is about to begin causing widespread death and chaos. I assured them that the Aug. 4, 2022, public health emergency declaration is about government…

Israel has recorded fewer than 200 cases of monkeypox but the country learned from COVID-19 that moving quickly can make or break a country's response to an infectious disease.

Infectious disease experts have cast doubts on North Korea's claims, with the World Health Organisation saying last month it believed the situation was getting worse, not better

New research indicates that famine and exposure to infectious disease best explains the evolution of our ability to consume milk.

Fever Hospital has been in the forefront of battles against infectious diseases

In July 2022 Ghana confirmed its first two cases of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade and Usifo Omozokpea asked virologist Oyewale Tomori about its origin and how people can protect themselves against…

Clinicians are ‘skittish’ about the Covid antiviral, resulting in a failure to treat patients who could greatly benefit