The authors have each served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One misguided narrative is that the CDC should focus only on a “core mission” of combatting infectious ...

A seven-week dengue chain in LA County shows the continental US is closer to the threshold for tropical disease transmission ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control reveals ER visits for tick bites are at their highest levels in almost a ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will provide approximately $12 million to ...

Robert Redfield is a senior visiting fellow for biosecurity and public health policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center. A virologist, he was director of the Centers for Disease Control ...

Chronic wasting disease has been spreading among deer in the United States, which has raised concerns that the fatal neurological illness might make the leap to people. But a recent study suggests ...

Cardiovascular diseases are the world’s leading cause of disability and death. Such diseases were responsible in 2019 for an estimated 18.6 million deaths globally and 957,000 deaths in the United ...

Shown are mean surface air temperatures from 2011 to 2021 as compared with baseline mean temperatures from 1956 to 1976. Adapted from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard ...