Before April 2022, monkeypox virus infection in humans was seldom reported outside African regions where it is endemic. Currently, cases are occurring worldwide. Transmission, risk factors, clinical ...

Despite substantial progress in malaria control over the past two decades, malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, ...

A person’s biology may play more of a role in how Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, spreads more so than healthcare facility preventive measures, a new study finds. This means that transmission of ...

Health officials in Oregon are concerned they may not be able to contain a small but growing measles outbreak, and on Friday ...

Vaccination and boosting, especially when recent, helped to limit the spread of COVID-19 in California prisons during the first Omicron wave, according to an analysis by researchers at UC San ...

Using genome sequencing, researchers found that the infection-prevention practices of using an antibiotic ointment and ...

A critical component in analyzing the development and spread of viruses is the mechanism by which it is transmitted. Transmission of viruses occurs in two different ways: horizontally and vertically.

The likelihood of airline passengers transmitting infectious diseases to one another is low, new data suggest. Although passengers seated within one row or two seats on either side of an infected ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the COVID-19 infection, can be transmitted from mother to baby before, during and after childbirth -- but such occurrences are rare, a new study reveals. SARS-CoV-2, the ...

Back in the early to mid-1980s prior to the vaccine availability of hepatitis B, concerns about proper infection control in dentistry emerged. Ungloved dentists, especially oral surgeons, were ...