The campaign to prevent and treat these diseases has seen great success thanks to a USAID program. Now that program is gone.

What are called autoimmune diseases can affect just about every part of the body — and tens of millions of people. While most ...

Adalja is an infectious disease physician and a senior scholar at the Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Vergara Cid is an immigration law ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is once again the infectious disease responsible for the most deaths worldwide, according to a Tuesday announcement from the World Health Organization (WHO). The contagious disease ...

Conor Meehan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue, and tuberculosis are considered to pose as great a challenge to global health as ...

Turning off the genetic switch to its respiratory system might finally eliminate the bacteria behind tuberculosis.

The Covid-19 pandemic underscored the importance of infectious disease doctors — but the field is still facing a shortage, with consequences for the health of communities across the U.S. Specialists ...

Jamaica confirms outbreak of infectious disease linked to the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, which devastated the island-nation last month.

A new AI tool to predict the spread of infectious disease outperforms existing state-of-the-art forecasting methods. The tool, created with federal support by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Duke ...

For most of the past century, the United States’ track record on infectious disease has been quite good. Thanks to major investments in public health, diseases such as smallpox, polio, yellow fever, ...