"In a single decade, the world has transformed Ebola from a global emergency to a disease that can be stopped in its tracks," said Dr Richard Hatchett, CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness ...

Infant deaths in India have declined, but viral infection rates remain high, underscoring that water and sanitation alone ...

With measles outbreaks, flu spikes, and COVID as a seasonal threat, learn key differences between these contagious diseases, ...

Viral mimic systems and other tech platforms could enable local testing of vaccine candidates and antiviral therapies. This ...

A review published in Infection highlights viral mimic systems that safely replicate key features of pathogens like SARS-CoV-2. These technologies allow vaccine testing in lower-level biosafety ...

The leaders in the smallpox field were stuck. It was shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York City and U.S. government officials feared that smallpox might be the next weapon of choice. The ...

Researchers pinpoint the precise genetic & molecular mechanism behind rare COVID vaccine blood clots (VITT), revealing how ...

Dr. Paul Bunge begins his new book about COVID-19 by inviting readers to join him on a journey — one he knows will be uncomfortable, perhaps even full of disagreements. Bunge, a former U.S.

Clear proof that isolation was the remedy There are a number of proofs (apart from Haygarth’s experiment and Leicester) that it was isolation, not ring vaccination, that eradicated smallpox. First, we ...

Against measles’ 12-18, smallpox – one of the most feared and deadliest diseases humanity faced, until it was eradicated – had an R 0 of 5-7. Polio is about the same, while the Ebola virus that caused ...