Misinformation fuelled by US health czar Robert Kennedy Jr is creating a dangerous — and growing — lack of trust in vaccines. Here's why South Africa's public health experts are scared.

This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...

By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

New landmark research has successfully mapped 37,000 years of infectious disease across ancient human populations.

Researchers have mapped the spread of infectious diseases in humans across millennia, to reveal how human-animal interactions ...

Researchers have mapped the spread of infectious diseases in humans across millennia, to reveal how human-animal interactions permanently transformed ...

An ECDC Rapid Risk Assessment issued today highlights how ongoing circulation of diphtheria caused by Corynebacterium ...

E376,Causal Agent Beech leaf disease (BLD) is caused by an invasive nematode Litylenchus crenatae subsp. mccannii (Lcm; Figure 1). Nematodes are microscopic roundworms. Most nematodes are free-living, ...

A man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, Australian health officials said.

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.

Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families By By LAURA UNGAR, AP Science Writer Saturday, Jun 28, 2025 12:24 PM ...

Publications 2025 Charting a Path Toward New Treatments for Lyme Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses Around 10-20% of people who contract Lyme disease, the most common tickborne disease in the U.S.