For example, HIV infections can now be treated with medications that extend people's lives and stop the disease from progressing to AIDS. Smallpox, some rare variants of which were nearly 100% ...

I am 69, and when I was growing up, there was no HPV vaccine like there is today — a vaccine developed thanks to infectious disease research. It’s estimated to prevent 90% of HPV-related cancers.

Although there will likely be other major infectious disease challenges in the future (for example, antimicrobial drug resistance), addressing the shortcomings of the US response to COVID-19 is of ...

Infectious diseases can also be completely asymptomatic (with no symptoms ever manifesting), particularly in younger and healthier individuals. For example, hepatitis (hepatitis C) infections can ...

Infectious diseases in areas of the body in which archaea may have an effect. Figure created with BioRender (https://www.biorender.com). Archaeal involvement in oral cavity infections ...

HealthMap, just one example of these types of systems, has done so successfully for more than a decade. 2,17 This Internet-based infectious-disease surveillance system provided early evidence of ...