U.S. sociologist Scott Feld wrote, "Your friends have more friends than you do." Feld's so-called friendship paradox states ...

The reproduction number R is often used as an indicator to predict how quickly an infectious disease will spread.

Basic public health protections help augment our national security protections,” particularly when it comes to emerging ...

The U.S. is seeing a "quad-demic" as cases of COVID-19, flu, RSV and norovirus spread at the same time. Experts said this is ...

Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the ...

The COVID pandemic ... cause human disease. Members of each viral family share common properties and our immune systems respond to them in similar ways. The WHO's blueprint for epidemics aims ...

More than 700 years since the Black Death pandemic, scientists are developing a bubonic plague jab – but why? And should we ...

The WHO has downplayed concerns over a rise in HMPV cases, saying outbreaks are normal during winter in the Northern ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In December, the DRC Ministry of Health announced the emergence of an unknown disease causing influenza-like ...