Every day there are around 100,000 international flights, each delivering a well-mixed volume of human excreta from up to 400 random (if not representative) people from every country in the world; the ...

Pediatric hospitals have been busy since November with RSV, but “influenza has now joined the party,” said Dr. Jason Newland, an infectious diseases specialist at ... a nasty stomach bug, with 91 ...

Here's what we know about the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas right now, plus how the infection spreads. Meet the expert: Thomas Russo, MD, is a professor and chief of infectious disease at the ...

Here's what we know about the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas right now, plus how the infection spreads. Meet the expert: Thomas Russo, MD, is a professor and chief of infectious disease at the ...

The new year is certain to bring the spread of infectious ... cattle-associated outbreak,” says Dr. Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including ...

"The bottom line is that withdrawing from the WHO makes Americans and the world less safe," says Dr. Tom Frieden, president ...

Osterholm has nearly 50 years of investigating infectious disease outbreaks and public health threats. Osterholm hosts a podcast at the University of Minnesota called "Osterholm Update," where he ...

On Jan. 20, Tanzania declared an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in Biharamulo District in the northwestern part of the country’s Kagera Region. The announcement comes after public ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has become the largest documented TB outbreak in ... can develop into TB disease. “TB is an infectious disease that ...