London-based data journalist David McCandless put together a pretty scatterplot about the relative dangers of infectious disease. McCandless sums up the infograph nice: “It’s a statistical measure of ...

A new AI tool to predict the spread of infectious disease outperforms existing state-of-the-art forecasting methods. The tool, created with federal support by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Duke ...

People often mistakenly believe that "infectious” means the same thing as “contagious”. However, they are not the same. Some infectious diseases are spread person-to-person (contagious) and others are ...

Nearly 80 percent of U.S. households are connected to municipal wastewater collection systems. These sewer systems contain the biological waste, including discharged pathogens, of the human ...

Discover the 25 deadliest infectious diseases of all time, ranked by their historical death toll. Learn about the pathogens ...