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Infectious diseases remain major public health challenges in the United States, according to a new report published inThe Lancetas part of a new Series, The health of Americans. Endemic conditions such as chronic viral hepatitis,human immunodeficiency virus, and othersexually transmitted infectionscontinu...
The United States recorded its 12th million COVID-19 case on Saturday, even as millions of Americans were expected to travel for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, ignoring warnings from health officials about furthering the spread of the infectious disease. More than 12,010,000 cases of the co...
In February 2021, Gateway Expert, a US news website disclosed an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) between the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Moderna. The agreement shows that in December 2019, the “candidate mRNA coronavirus vaccine” developed by the two parties was offi...
"I believe that virtually everyone will be infected at some point in their lives, and most people multiple times. We see plenty of patients with reinfection, though it is a really hard number to quantify," said Dr. Shira Doron, an infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at Tu...
Infectious Disease | There have been major advances in the control and prevention of infectious diseases in the United States, but some diseases continue to pose serious threats to human health and require immediate action from health care prof...
“The reality is the surveillance systems that CDC had developed over the years for respiratory viral diseases, particularly the influenza-like illness, really did give us eyes on this disease as it began to emerge,” Redfield said. “Independent of testing, we had pretty good eyes on whether...
Deadliest infectious diseases in the world, ranked60 photos While China has closed transportation in and out of Wuhan and other cities, there were concerns that as hundreds of millions of people traveled around the country to celebrate the Chinese New Year, the virus could spread even f...
Of those living with the virus in the U.S., about 14%, or 1 in 7, are unaware of their infection.HIVweakens theimmune systemby destroying cells meant to combat infection and disease; AIDS is the final stage of the infection, when the immune system has been severely damaged. Not all ...
by Mayo Clinic News Network Credit: CC0 Public Domain Ticks discovered in New Jersey now have spread into neighboring states. "For the first time in 50 years, a new tick species has been identified in the U.S.," says Dr. Gregory Poland, director of the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group...