Airports have now introduced Covid-style checks in an attempt to stall an outbreak of a deadly virus with no cure and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic transformed over the past five years from a catastrophic threat that has killed over 7 million people to what most people regard today as a tolerable annoyance that doesn't ...

At the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000, 180 world leaders pledged to achieve significant advances in the well-being of the world's poor by 2015. Several of these "Millennium ...

TO most, rubella sounds like a virus from a bygone era – something you associate with grainy black-and-white photos of children in rickety old hospital wards. But cases of the bug, also ...

An outbreak of deadly bacteria at a Bay Area homeless encampment has sparked urgent calls for action in Los Angeles, with ...

As a Mount Vernon native and a volunteer for the Alzheimer’s Association over the past several years, I have had many conversations with fellow Westchester residents about Alzheimer’s disease and ...

Speakers at the workshop will present on how the opioid epidemic has changed the epidemiology of infectious disease, particularly in Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi ...

In the context of a disease, the transition from "epidemic" to "endemic" means a pathogen is no longer causing outbreaks but isn't disappearing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

In reality, however, by the time Champlain reached the lake he would name for himself, a European influx of another sort had likely already devastated Vermont’s native population. This invasion didn’t ...