Humans have always battled microbes. But if the assaults seem to be coming more frequently and ferociously, that's because they are ...

As immune function wanes, people become vulnerable. What should be a sniffle becomes deadly pneumonia. Infections that should remain dormant awaken to fatal effect. An obscure fungus kills. People ...

A new AI tool to predict the spread of infectious disease outperforms existing state-of-the-art forecasting methods. The tool, created with federal support by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Duke ...

Our immune system has a dark side: It’s supposed to fight off invaders to keep us healthy. But sometimes it turns traitor and attacks our own cells and tissues. What are called autoimmune diseases can ...

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it was canceling roughly $12 billion in funding for states’ public health departments. The funding, which was awarded during the COVID-19 ...

Flu season is here. The summer wave of the coronavirus has receded, but the winter uptick is probably around the corner. Shots are available for both respiratory viruses, raising questions about the ...

Whooping Cough Whooping-cough outbreaks are thought to be spurred by waning immunity from the vaccine. However, a 2013 study published in the journal Pediatrics reports that California’s worst ...