New cases of a dangerous, drug-resistant fungus have been identified in at least two states’ hospital systems.

How Infectious Disease Doctors Can Keep Up in a Rapidly Evolving Field As with most areas of medicine, advances in infectious diseases are accelerating at a rapid clip, and it’s understandable that as ...

In a retrospective study, researchers found a 2,200% increase in clinical Candida auris infections at Miami-based Jackson ...

RVN, GradDipVN, discusses the growing importance of infection prevention in animal care, tackling antimicrobial resistance, hand hygiene, and adapting human health care protocols.

The measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico is now close to 300 cases. Most are unvaccinated children. People usually ...

Health experts say low vaccination rates are fueling outbreaks of the contagious disease that was considered to be eliminated ...

Infections typically occur when the virus becomes airborne from a rodent's urine, droppings, or saliva, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Though rare, it can also ...

Colorado hasn't had any cases of measles yet this year, but with a large outbreak in Texas that has spread to New Mexico, the ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is an ongoing group of lung conditions that include chronic bronchitis and emphysema. COPD is the result of damaged lung tissue, which leads to ...

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has sent some of its “disease detectives” to West Texas to help with the measles outbreak there — a sign that ...

COVID survivors also landed in the hospital again more frequently, with 16,334 hospitalizations per 100,000 person-years compared with 12,024 hospitalizations among the control group ... Charles ...

A recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows three new human cases of the H5N1 bird flu virus. All three individuals were ...