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That era might now be over. In recent years, the U.S. had already begun to neglect its public-health infrastructure, ...

Deep funding cuts and widespread layoffs impact everything from local public health outreach to global disease surveillance, making us more vulnerable, experts warn.

Six common pathogens were responsible for nearly 10 million foodborne illnesses in 2019, according to an analysis published in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Researchers at the University of Cologne have found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines have a lasting impact on the innate ...

In general, the human immune system has a remarkable ability to ... could reverse the effects of vaccination against other infectious diseases. “Measles seems to knock out naturally induced ...

“Even if your measles virus infection seemed mild and you kind of blew through it, it doesn’t mean that it was mild on your immune system,” Mina added. In a new book, pediatric infectious ...