Mary Duncan, R.N., MSN, CIC, is the senior director of Infection Prevention for the UAB Health System, with 18 years of experience implementing best practices at various health facilities. Her ...

Few things set public health departments scrambling like a measles outbreak. The virus is a bear to deal with, even in highly vaccinated populations. That’s because the virus is exquisitely adept at ...

There is currently no evidence that the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) causes severe adverse outcomes in neonates or that it can pass to the child while in the womb, according to a small ...

Karen Kruse Thomas is the Bloomberg School historian. This article originally appeared online as part of the Bloomberg School of Public Health's COVID-19 Expert Insights. Seven months after the first ...

Reviews of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 5, Supplement 5. Symposium on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections (Nov. - Dec., 1983), pp. S867-S873 (7 pages) In nature Pseudomonas aeruginosa grows in two modes, ...

Mother-to-child HIV transmission is preventable. Early diagnosis and antenatal screening are key. Consistent antiretroviral ...

Campylobacter infection, one of the most common foodborne illnesses in the Western world, can also be spread through sexual contact, according to a new research discovery by an OU Hudson College of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Glatter is a New York-based physician covering public health. This article is more than 5 years old. Workers of Dongjin ...

The way Monkeypox is transmitted may have changed and scientists don't know why. Before the most recent outbreak, Monkeypox was usually only recorded in areas of Western and Central Africa. In recent ...

Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) has killed many millions of wild rabbits in Europe and Australia, but has had little impact in the United Kingdom, despite outbreaks having occurred since 1994 ...