Browsing: infectious disease

In September 2024, a handful of patients showed up at the emergency room in the coastal city of Fano, Italy,…

“I think this is a real opportunity to solve a public health problem,” Saphire says. “A tool by which you…

As the world struggles to contain the rapidly growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, a…

Anyone who has had chickenpox shares one distinct memory: the relentless, all-consuming itch.Ciara DiVita was only 3 years old when…

As passengers return to the US from the cruise that saw a rare hantavirus outbreak, much of the country is…

Now that more than 100 passengers aboard a hantavirus-stricken luxury cruise ship have been evacuated, with 18 Americans in biocontainment…

Cruises are so closely associated with illness that the highly contagious norovirus is commonly called the “cruise ship virus.”But a…