Flu season is right around the corner—and experts offer insight on where the virus thrives, and how to protect yourself. The ...

With a background in biomedical informatics, Neal Goldstein focuses on computational approaches in complex data settings to understand infectious disease transmission among vulnerable populations ...

Expanding Habitats Rising global temperatures are not just making the world a hotter place; they're also expanding the ...

Waterborne transmission is part of a cultural vector ... But in terms of human diseases, generally it's in our interest to have the disease organisms be as mild as possible. What we can do depends ...

AI’s potential to detect and prevent disease is limitless, and allows us to address public health in a manner that is proactive, not just reactive.

The evidence is convincing in terms of the soundness of the theoretical projections and the impact that accounting for group sizes may have on inferences from surveillance data. However, it has not ...

A new study published in the journal Engineering has analyzed the correlation between different indoor transmission-risk assessment metrics for infectious diseases. By using simulation-generated data, ...

Infectious disease epidemiology focuses on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases among the population and strategies to prevent, control, and mitigate disease outbreaks.

In contrast, transmission of sexually transmitted pathogens (assuming rates of sexual contact don't necessarily increase with host density) and some vector-borne diseases is thought to be ...

Variations in temperature, precipitation, and humidity can influence the spread of infectious diseases, including by altering ...