Local doctors say a new influenza mutation has reduced this year’s vaccine effectiveness, but vaccination still helps prevent ...

Among the most famous demonstrations of genetic mutations driving infection outcome is severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID ...

Cases of the so-called “super flu” are rising in the U.S. The virus has several mutations that make it highly infectious. Doctors expect a bad flu season ahead. Here’s what you can do to stay safe. As ...

Bird flu and TB outbreaks in the US highlighted the ongoing relevance of these diseases, despite being considered relics of the past. The FDA approved gepotidacin, a new class of oral antibiotics for ...

Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new database that brings together more than 100 years of historical epidemiological data from across Canada, which will help to predict future ...

A horse was euthanized in Lancaster County last month after testing positive for equine herpesvirus, an infectious disease that can be fatal for domestic horses. According to the Equine Disease ...

The idea that we think of it as a as solely a brain disease. And I think for a long time it seems like there have been other paths towards how people may potentially develop this disease. There seems ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes the potentially fatal respiratory infection of the same name, was found to use a system known as PrrAB to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Kevin Tracey, MD, talks about his book, The Great Nerve, in this Healio Community webinar. Tracey discusses the ...

More than 380 clinical trials and tens of thousands of participants were disrupted by cuts to grant funding from the National Institutes of Health this year, according to a research analysis published ...

Director of the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Plaform (KRISP)., Stellenbosch University Rising ...

It’s hard to believe that infectious diseases have become a political litmus test, but they are now very much part of the “with us or against us” mental sorting more and more people seem to be doing ...