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A CDC program tests wastewater from airplanes, looking for pathogens that may have hitched a ride with passengers on long-haul international flights.

Bioengineering professor and The Grainger College of Engineering’s Dean, Rashid Bashir, led a team of researchers in a project that’s resulted in new technology that offers rapid, highly sensitive det ...

Measles epidemic in the US, women's health investment, ASHA workers' struggle, and more health issues discussed concisely.

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U.S.-funded organizations helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and ...

For more than a decade, I have worked as a physician and public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the ...

However, the last 100 years have also been characterised by outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics caused by emerging and re-emerging pathogens, most of which have been zoonotic in origin.

"Unprotected city" - this is what infants are during the first six months of life, and the resurgence of whooping cough - ...

More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial ...