Measles is one of the most contagious infectious diseases known to science – more contagious than Ebola, smallpox or COVID-19. Declining vaccination rates over the past few years, plus a recent ...

According to a new study, an experiment on monkeys has shown that Ebola can be cured with just a pill. First discovered in ...

Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him — and the world — in the face. The ...

As well as protecting the monkeys from death, the treatment also evoked an immune response. Senior author Dr Thomas Geisbert ...

This week marks a somber anniversary: five years since New York shut down as a deadly virus was ravaging the state, the ...

In contrast, Ebola virus disease is a rare but severe illness characterized by symptoms such as fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain, and, in severe cases, internal and external bleeding. Ebola is ...

The foreign aid program has been one of the country's best defenses against emerging infectious diseases. Without it, we are ...

While public health authorities in Texas and elsewhere are doing their best to contain the latest outbreaks, RFK Jr. is going ...

In a study published in the journal, Cell, Jing Chen, PhD, and colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan, China, ...

The man’s case didn’t give rise to any widespread variant, but it gave Gupta, with his HIV evolution background, the idea ...

In her new book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood ...

Eight scholars from Brown University looked back at the pandemic with an eye toward how its lessons can help the United States and other nations prepare for the next global health crisis.