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

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

The Covid-19 outbreak in 2020 was on a scale not seen since the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and laid bare our lack of ...

A new treatment for sexually-transmitted diseases seems to be slowing an STI epidemic — but not everyone can get it ...

A suspected cholera outbreak in Nembe-Ogbolomabiri, Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has claimed 18 lives, ...

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Hepatitis E, a potentially serious viral liver disease, is transmitted through contaminated water. The risk is particularly ...

For the second year in a row, the CDC’s annual STI report showed an overall decline in combined cases of the three nationally ...

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

“We do have an outbreak of human infections of H5N1,” says Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases ...