Low vaccination rates for influenza viruses and the lack of an HSV vaccine underscore the need for a new approach to reduce viral transmission. Researchers have now used a clinical-grade antiviral ...

Elon Musk, an unelected US official leading budget cuts, claims funding to contain Uganda's Ebola outbreak "accidentally" ...

Deep funding cuts and widespread layoffs impact everything from local public health outreach to global disease surveillance, making us more vulnerable, experts warn.

On a November morning in 2018, a man checked into a crowded emergency department (ED) in California reporting fever and body ...

Using two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and fragmentation were among the strongest predictors ...

Over the past decade, IDPH published several surge plans including an “Ebola Virus Disease Preparedness and Response Plan” in ...

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can ...

The COVID-19 pandemic showed in real time, and with the highest of stakes, how hard it can be to decide if something is true.

Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock ...

A recent study estimates if ASFV reached the United States it could result in economic losses exceeding $50 billion over a ten-year period.

it could be applied to lumpy skin disease virus, a double-stranded DNA virus that primarily affects cattle causing ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...