As Earth's climate warms and habitats are altered, diseases can spread into new geographic areas. For example, warming temperatures allow mosquitoes - and the diseases they transmit - to expand their ...

A contagious disease doesn’t just affect one person, though—it spreads from one person to the next, often without their knowing it. For example, according to the U.S. Center for Disease ...

But are the “bugs” that make us sick evolving as well? While malaria is the best-understood example of an infectious disease that has driven human evolution, numerous other infectious diseases ...

Christina Hermos, MD'03, MMSc, hasn't seen a case of measles since she was doing a fellowship two decades ago. And that was a ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... or under-vaccinated population -- this is a textbook example of how measles can quickly spread." "A small measles outbreak could be the start ...

We know there are lots of questions surrounding measles after the Maryland Department of Health confirmed one case in Howard County on Sunday, so we asked an expert.