A global analysis of 58,318 outbreaks found that environmental drivers of emerging diseases vary by pathogen, while fragmented ecosystems raise risks for some infections. Limited healthcare access ...

Global fragmentation of ecosystems and changing patterns of rainfall have increased the risk of diseases spreading to humans ...

The study also revealed that access to health care was also a major influence on where outbreaks are reported. Reports of outbreaks fell 32% for every additional hour people had to travel to reach the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF Infectious disease spread is increasingly common due to ...

A study finds 29.5% of suspected Lyme disease patients co-seropositive for other tick-borne pathogens, per Quest Diagnostics.

Isabella Eckerle, Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Director of the HUG-UNIGE Geneva Centre for Emerging Viral ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has extended its Emerging Viral Pathogen (EVP) Guidance for Antimicrobial Pesticides (Guidance) in response to the mpox virus (formerly monkeypox), which ...

To prevent viruses from sickening or killing us—whether it's an individual case of hepatitis B or a COVID pandemic—it's crucial to understand how the proteins they make initiate changes in our bodies ...

A team of San Antonio-based biomedical researchers trained a machine learning algorithm to identify more than two dozen viable treatments for diseases caused by zoonotic pathogens that can jump from ...

On September 1, 2026, the U.S. National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC) announced the second ...

A new report in NEJM Evidence has highlighted two cases of destructive meningitis that occurred in infants. These cases were due to severe infections with a bacterium called Paenibacillus, which is ...