Despite the constant pressures and potential pitfalls of battling infectious diseases, many nursing homes do an exemplary job tackling all that comes with caring for an immunocompromised population.

In addition to the cold and flu, many are falling ill to RSV, COVID and norovirus this winter. How to know what you have.

Two weeks into the Trump administration, external communication from federal health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with the nation and world has gone dark. In the ...

RSV, respiratory syncytial virus, usually peaks in December and January while infecting the nose, throat and lungs, usually ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 67 confirmed human cases of H5N1 bird flu ...

A recent study conducted on human A(H5N1) cases in the United States found that conjunctivitis was the primary symptom ...

Patients with suspected tuberculosis (TB) require special precautions in healthcare facilities, and cases of TB have been ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took offline recommendations on how doctors should treat sexually transmitted ...

In an increasingly interconnected world, global health faces constant threats from new and re-emerging pathogens. Recent devastating outbreaks of diseases ...

"This type of prevention can be very useful in controlling infection outbreaks and containing the bird flu pandemic," said an immunologist.

The Sheridan Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Angel Oliver as the hospital’s infection ...

Sepsis is an underestimated killer. Nearly a quarter of patients treated for sepsis in hospital will die, but because so many ...