Medical staff push a patient on a gurney to a waiting medical helicopter at the Emile Muller hospital in Mulhouse, eastern France, to be evacuated on another hospital on March 17, 2020, amid the ...

When an outbreak of an infectious disease begins to spread, policymakers face an unenviable challenge. They must decide when to intervene and how forcefully, knowing that their choices carry both ...

When you think about global health challenges, obesity probably comes to mind as something that affects wealthy nations. But the reality is far more complex and surprising. Some countries have managed ...

During epidemics of Ebola, COVID-19, Zika and other public health emergencies, effective communication of public health messages is crucial to control the spread of disease, maintain public trust, and ...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, researchers assessed the intensities and frequencies of extreme novel epidemics. Study: Intensity and ...

Tanzania continues to experience emerging and re-emerging epidemics, including cholera, dengue, Covid-19 and Marburg, which ...

Certain ants appear to alter their nest networks to prevent epidemics, offering inspiration for disease control interventions in the human world as well. Ants are many things. Like, they're very ...

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We may tend to see the COVID-19 pandemic as an extremely unlikely event that could not have been predicted. But according to a study led by Marco Marani, at the Università degli Studi di Padova, each ...

Editor’s Note: Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the CDC from 2009-2017, oversaw responses to the H1N1 influenza, Ebola and Zika epidemics, is President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, and Senior Fellow ...