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Infectious diseases are common worldwide. Your immune system is able to fight most germs that you grew up with. If you've been deployed abroad, you may have encountered some germs you're not used to.

Responsibility for public health protection from communicable diseases exists at three government levels in the U.S. (federal, state/tribe, and local/municipal), with states having the authority to ...

Social and cultural forces shape almost every aspect of infectious disease transmission in human populations, as well as our ability to measure, understand, and respond to epidemics. For directly ...

COVID-19 brought a heightened interest to the treatment of communicable diseases in casualty insurance policies during 2020. The Delta and Omicron variants have renewed attention to communicable ...

A virus is a sneaky little bugger whose goal is to get inside your body. When it does enter your body it finds a normal cell to infect. Once it’s inside the cell, the virus will create newly copied ...

Epidemics and pandemics of new diseases arise in two stages. Firstly, the zoonotic spillover event introduces the infectious organism, in the main a virus, into the human population from an animal ...

Health consequences arising from climate change are threatening to offset advances made to reduce the damage of infectious diseases, which vary by region and the resilience of the local health system.

Doctors weigh in about the potential disease risks of a major international event like the World Cup.

Secondary prevention—screenings, guidelines, and recommendations. Clinical screening of at-risk populations for infectious and communicable diseases is considered secondary prevention, because you are ...