About a quarter of deaths worldwide--many of them children--are caused by infectious organisms. The World Health Organization reports that new infectious diseases are continuing to...
With the threat of a warmer, wetter world and a larger global population, scientists are researching how climate change may impact the spread of infectious...
Dr. Susan Fisher-Hoch, Virologist and Epidemiologist, will discuss her research and travels associated with viral hemorrhagic fevers. From the Ebola outbreak in Reston, Virginia to...
Poliomyelitis, a viral infectious disease, had once paralyzed and crippled hundreds of thousands of children each year. But the development of vaccines and a global...
Just over fifty years ago, hospitals were used for the isolation of patients suffering from incurable infectious diseases. Fortunately, things have improved greatly and such...
