Once again communities in Central Africa are plagued by Ebola and the current outbreak shows no sign of being brought under control any time soon. What have medical researchers and practitioners learn...

Yellow fever re-emerged in Tolima, Colombia after nearly a century, causing mortality among humans and non-human primates. This outbreak occurred primarily

AbstractRisk maps and spatial models provide key information about the endemicity and spread of infectious diseases. Novel data streams and statistical techniques, with the aid of artificial intelligence, create the opportunity for modern risk maps. To ensure that these tools are useful for clinical decision-making, we need to understand how risk maps are used, how they are developed, and how they can be improved. This will be especially important for zoonotic, vector-borne, and environmental infectious diseases in the era of environmental change and globalization.

On 2 May 2026, a cluster of passengers with severe respiratory illness aboard a cruise ship was reported to the World Health Organization. The ship is carrying 147 passengers and crew. As of 4 May 202...

This cohort study assesses the risk factors associated with West Nile neuroinvasive disease and mortality in the US between 2013 and 2024.

Chagas disease remains the most significant neglected tropical disease in the Western Hemisphere. In this review, we examine critical aspects of patient ca

Mpox is a spectrum of disease caused by monkeypox virus, which is divided into clades I (with subclades Ia and Ib) and II (with subclades IIa and IIb).1 In 2022, simultaneous detection of non-travel-a...

Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne viral hemorrhagic fever, and recent outbreaks of yellow fever have occurred in multiple African countries, including Ghana (2021–2022). Delayed diagnosis of yellow fev...

Stunning hunting behaviour captured in German cave

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We’re hiring! We have a unique opportunity to join our team, the Translational Infectious Disease Eco-epidemiology (TIDE) lab at UCLA, as our Senior Research Data Analyst. Our mission is to improve t...

The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.

An overview of Seth Judson’s research on emerging infectious diseases, environmental contexts of health, and translating these findings for global policymakers and patients

We investigated West Nile cases in a Mid-Atlantic healthcare system, finding significant morbidity and mortality from neuroinvasive disease, notably among immunocompromised patients. Encephalitis was ...

Move by US biomedical agency jeopardizes thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Updated NIH Policy on Foreign Subawards NOT-OD-25-104. NIH

Yellow fever can spread quickly and kill between 30% and 60% of its severely-afflicted victims. However, an emergency stockpile of vaccine doses has been helping halt epidemics for a quarter of a…

STAT is tracking, day by day, what's happened in the words of science and health during the first months of the Trump administration.

Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

My ID colleague Dr. Adam Ratner, Chief of Pediatric ID at NYU Medical Center, just published an insightful and remarkably timely book called Booster Shots:  The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncer...

Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

A federal judge on Friday largely blocked sweeping executive orders from President Donald Trump that seek to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. U.S. Distri...

The Trump administration could face political backlash from voters in Republican and Democratic states who suddenly find a host of services vanish.

The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.

An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

Abstract. The global outbreak of clade IIb mpox in 2022-2023 changed our understanding of the epidemiology and prevention of mpox, simultaneously highlight