Infectious diseases are illnesses you can develop when bacteria, viruses, fungi, or other organisms enter your body. You may acquire an infectious disease from people, insects, animals ...

Measles, one of the world’s most contagious infectious diseases, can cause serious complications – such as blindness, ...

Emerging infectious diseases are infections that have recently appeared within a population or those whose incidence or geographic range is rapidly increasing or threatens to increase in the near ...

Tuberculosis may seem like a historic malady, but it’s still the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Here’s what you need ...

The Infectious Diseases Training Program at Baylor College of Medicine offers comprehensive clinical training and diverse research opportunities in the largest medical center in the world. Our faculty ...

A TB outbreak in Kansas has people around the country worried. These facts will help you put the risk in ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Dave Wessner is a virologist who covers infectious diseases. The mystery disease affecting people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...