Scientists have a radical new plan for controlling mosquito numbers and fighting malaria: lacing human blood with a drug that ...

A silent but deadly epidemic is creeping through North America and scientists are sounding the alarm.

Emerging infectious diseases are infections that have recently appeared within a population or those whose incidence or geographic range is rapidly increasing or threatens to increase in the near ...

Diseases live and spread in humans, animals, and non-living objects. Contagious diseases can infect people from skin-to-skin contact, breathing, eating, and other pathways. Most contagious ...

Pathogens are constantly evolving to become resistant to treatment in the perpetual battle between humans and infectious ...