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...
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...
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...
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...
