The Department of Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford Medicine is recruiting a faculty at the Assistant Professor/Associate Professor levels to contribute to t...

Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...

The Department of Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford Medicine is recruiting a faculty at the Assistant Professor/Associate Professor levels to contribute to t...

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.

It is not clear whether the order, the president’s third to address the topic in less than a year, has any legal power.

This study estimates the number of cases and complications in the US under scenarios of declining childhood vaccination for measles, rubella, poliomyelitis, and diphtheria.

It is not clear whether the order, the president’s third to address the topic in less than a year, has any legal power.

This study estimates the number of cases and complications in the US under scenarios of declining childhood vaccination for measles, rubella, poliomyelitis, and diphtheria.

A 59-year-old man who underwent a bilateral orthotopic lung transplant 13 years prior presented with cough and chest pain. His transplant history was remar

This August issue marks the 25th anniversary of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The journal was created in 2001 by our late Editor-in-Chief John McConnell whose vision for a journal for specialists in...

The sharp rise in cases comes amid a decadeslong decline in childhood vaccination rates.

The Bundibugyo virus only emerged twice before. Now, scientists see a chance to get to know it better

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is a severe respiratory disease with a case-fatality rate historically exceeding 30%.1 Although most hantaviruses are primarily transmitted via the inhalation of aerosoli...

The NIH has appointed researcher John Powers III to lead its infectious disease institute on an acting basis, after weeks of being in leadership limbo.

Strongyloidiasis: a widely ignored yet dangerous tropical disease that can kill when immunity fails.

Testing, sequencing, and clinical trial efforts spring to life as Bundibugyo virus spreads

Pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article 12 - Determination of a public health emergency of international concern, including a pandemic emergency of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), the Di...

Questions about the culprit virus and its route of spread remain as health officials make plans for stranded passengers

The emergence of a nasty new virus or even an unexpected flu strain can pose a big public-health headache. Meanwhile, antiviral drug development moves at an agonizingly slow pace and cringingly high c...

Marc Lipsitch and Yonatan Grad pay tribute to their former colleague and mentor Barry R. Bloom.

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

The war with Iran is costing America. That money, the Opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof argues, could be better spent ending childhood malnutrition, screening for cancer or providing free college tui...