In 2023, after a brief hiatus, tuberculosis regained from COVID its status as the world’s deadliest infectious disease—a ...

Fewer Florida parents are fully vaccinating their kindergartners against measles, polio, tetanus and other highly contagious diseases that can get people seriously ill, federal and state data show.

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

Vector-borne diseases continue to pose significant global health challenges due to their widespread transmission by vectors such as mosquitoes, ticks, ...

Melioidosis is a rare tropical disease caused by bacteria commonly found in soil and water in Southeast Asia and northern Australia. After heavy rainfall it becomes airborne. Queensland's tropical ...

The unidentified ailment has sickened 1,300 people and led to more than 50 deaths. Regardless of the cause, experts say ...

The measles outbreak is surging in West Texas, especially in under-vaccinated communities, but it’s not just coverage with ...

A recent study published in the journal Engineering delves into the complex world of assessing the transmission risk of infectious diseases in indoor spaces.

Malaria, dysentery, yellow fever head the list of tropical diseases to be fought in World War II by the U.S. Medical Corps. Of the three, malaria, against which there is no true prophylactic ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) has decommissioned eight tropical cyclone names from its regular list following ...

Other examples of immune disorders include: Autoimmune diseases, which include type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, and certain types of anemia (this is when your immune ...

Linking the increasing epidemiology of scrub typhus transmission in India and South Asia: are the varying environment and the reservoir animals the factors behind?