The recently formed National Academies Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats, assembled at the request of the White House Office of Science and Technology ...

Barely three years after a pandemic disrupted life around the globe, reports of avian influenza infections moving from birds into mammals are surfacing. While it may be understandable that we were ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has dramatically increased the awareness of emerging infectious diseases. The advancement of multiomics analysis technology has resulted in the ...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) assembled the Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st ...

Many emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, especially zoonotic diseases such as ebola or new coronaviruses, emerge as the result of intensified human activities such as deforestation, ...

Gottlieb is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former FDA commissioner. McClellan is director of the Duke Margolis Institute for Health Policy and former FDA commissioner and ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says that the list of emerging infectious diseases is hardly limited to outbreaks of previously unknown pathogens. It also includes known ...

A new variant of COVID-19 is spreading across the United States, according to public health officials. This version, officially known as BA.3.2, has been dubbed the “Cicada” variant, after the insect ...

An emerging COVID-19 variant nicknamed "Cicada" is drawing attention from health officials across the country, as it's been ...

Though some researchers believe it should be labeled endemic in the United States, most Americans don’t need to worry about getting sick. By Simar Bajaj With federal support, Environmental Health ...