Tag: Emerging Threats

Complex, ill-structured, and thorny challenges require a convergence of expertise to advance beyond disciplinary boundaries and develop new frameworks for ...

Gaps in current clinical testing availability for monkeypox and the lag from infection to symptoms suggest the potential utility of ...

A bacteria that causes melioidosis has been found in the soil and water for the first time in the continental ...

Monkeypox is the latest global public health threat to make headlines. Most people who contract the monkeypox virus experience flu-like ...

The experimental Nipah virus vaccine (mRNA-1215) is manufactured by Moderna, Inc. and was developed in collaboration with NIAID’s Vaccine Research ...

US Expanding Monkeypox Testing Capacity as Cases Rise As the official count of monkeypox cases in the U.S. hit 156 ...

Chronic wasting disease, a deadly neurological infectious disease that affects deer, elk and moose, is spreading across North America. Most ...

Bavarian Nordic's smallpox vaccine is approved for use against monkeypox by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada. ...

An outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in chicken and turkey flocks has spread across 24 U.S. states since it ...

A Zika virus vaccine candidate is effective at preventing the Zika virus passing from mother to fetus in preclinical animal ...

According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' new Pandemic Preparedness Plan, the institute will direct its preparedness ...

The pandemic has brought many tricky terms and ideas from epidemiology into everyone’s lives. Two particularly complicated concepts are vaccine ...

A virus evolution expert explains what researchers know and what they don’t about the new coronavirus variant of concern. A ...

Charting changes in a pathogen’s genome yields clues about its past and hints about its future More than 250 million ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers, working with collaborators in China and Poland have developed an Internet information system, ...

The USAID Discovery & Exploration of Emerging Pathogens - Viral Zoonoses (DEEP VZN) project, will build scientific capacity in partner ...

The novel infectious virus, named Yezo virus and transmitted by tick bites, causes a disease characterized by fever and a ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is providing a funding mechanism to assist emergency departments in their role as ...

Ebola is back in Guinea in West Africa, five years after the largest Ebola epidemic ever known ended – but ...

Harnessing a predictive algorithm, Sang Woo Park and colleagues have mapped out new trends in the incidence of the respiratory ...