Infectious diseases

The new federal rule threatens widespread funding, including NYC health department and community groups

More than 74,000 adults over age 50 sought titer tests since last year, exclusive data shows.

Rabies is 100% preventable, but systems designed to protect animal and human health must work together.

The decision affecting a hantavirus cruise ship passenger raises new questions about federal quarantine powers and whether less restrictive alternatives are being properly considered.

Public health experts say secrecy around federal quarantine decisions can undermine trust in the government.

The CDC can only order quarantines for specific diseases put on a list by presidential executive order. A public health law expert told Healthbeat that federal officials’ novel approach — arguing that hantavirus is a type of severe acute respiratory syndrome — risks a legal challenge.

Internal records show how the South Carolina outbreak started with just four households, then spread through networks of unvaccinated people.

It has all the ingredients of a thriller movie and brings back memories of the beginnings of Covid. But the risk to the global population is low.

Moxidectin has proven effective for river blindness and elephantiasis. But there’s little financial incentive for pharmaceutical companies to invest in a drug whose target market is the very poorest people in the world.

7 things to know about how the largest U.S. outbreak in 35 years started and ended.

In a Q&A with Healthbeat, Perry Halkitis discusses how parallels between the AIDS epidemic and the Covid pandemic compelled him to write his latest book on the need for a public health sector that puts humans front and center.

At least seven people died of Legionnaires' disease in Harlem last summer. Now property owners will be required to test for Legionella microbes every month the towers are in use.

Even as we discover more effective treatments, we fail to deliver them to those most in need. What if AI could help change that?

While South Carolina’s outbreak may be ending, cases are rising elsewhere — including a fast-growing outbreak in Utah.

Some countries have backup systems to keep medicines flowing. Others do not.

What drove this decline? High tobacco taxes and comprehensive smoke-free laws that made smoking expensive to start and disruptive to continue.

Outbreak near Detroit is one of 17 new U.S. measles outbreaks. Some are large, many are small.

CDC modelers warn some infections may be going unreported, raising concerns about continued spread.

Persian Gulf countries are crucial transit hubs for pharmaceuticals, and drugs that need to be kept cold and have a short shelf life – including some cancer therapies – are vulnerable to shipping delays.