It's been more than 10 years since the 2014 Ebola epidemic, when the often-fatal viral infection spread from remote villages in Central Africa, leading to the world's largest outbreak since the virus' ...

U.S. Army scientists employed advanced biosurveillance techniques and emerging diagnostic technologies during Justified ...

Last August, Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge — co-chairs of the bipartisan Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense, which today released the first comprehensive examination of US biodefense efforts in over ...

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Gottlieb is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former FDA commissioner. McClellan is director of the Duke Margolis Institute for Health Policy and former FDA commissioner and ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene a standing committee of experts to help inform the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) on critical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BOSTON — The emergence of infectious diseases can be tied to events like climate change, social change and ...

Though some researchers believe it should be labeled endemic in the United States, most Americans don’t need to worry about getting sick. By Simar Bajaj With federal support, Environmental Health ...

Between avian influenza outbreaks, avian metapneumovirus cases and other re-emerging diseases, the burden on poultry ...

A new report published by Apollo highlights that young Indians are being exposed to health risks that are leading to chronic ...

It can be challenging to keep track of outbreaks these days. No sooner does one epidemic relinquish its place as the top news story than another has replaced it. A major MERS outbreak in South Korea ...

Infectious disease spread is increasingly common due to travel, human-animal contact, and climate trends. Experts shared the emerging diseases they're most concerned about and how to prevent them.