National Leaders in Hospital Genomic Surveillance Join in Key Advisory Roles as NGD Prepares to Deploy Real-Time Sequencing-Based Detection of Transmission in Hospitals CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS / ACCE ...

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Oregon has some of the worst hepatitis C rates in the ...

While COVID-19 transmission remains low in the US, health experts are anxious about the potential for a big summer wave as ...

Patients whose first language is Spanish are more likely to acquire certain hospital-associated infections than those whose first language is English, according to a study by Oakland, Calif.-based ...

Swimming in lakes, rivers, and other natural bodies can raise your risk of coming into contact with pathogens that can make you sick. Here are precautions you can take to lower your risk.

Health officials have confirmed that a person infected with measles arrived in Miami earlier in June from Boston. The travelers flew into Miami International Airport on JetBlue flight 639, according ...

Why are foodborne infections more common in the summer, and what are food safety practices that everyone should follow?

Were you exposed to measles? Local and state health agencies are tracking potential exposures after an unvaccinated ...

Climate change may be putting millions more people at risk from an infection-causing fungi, which is likely spreading due to ...

A South Carolina family is mourning the loss of their 14-year-old child after getting a rare but serious bacterial infection.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now urging summer camp operators to check for documentation of ...

“Vaccination protects kidneys mainly by preventing the severe forms of Covid that cause kidney injury,” Chen said. “While vaccines don’t directly shield kidney cells, they blunt the systemic illness ...