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 ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. It's been more than 10 years since the 2014 Ebola epidemic, when the often-fatal viral infection ...

A new review study traces the complex links between biodiversity loss and emerging infectious diseases — though one doesn’t necessarily lead to the other. Instead, complex interactions between factors ...

A virus plaguing shrimp and other seafood might also be responsible for an emerging eye disease in people that can cause permanent blindness, recent research suggests. Scientists in China have linked ...

“Climate change can drive disease emergence by increasing survival and geographic distributions of pathogens, vectors, and animal reservoir hosts, as well as by affecting human behaviour,” writes Dr.

Hantavirus recently made news headlines as the cause of death for Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, but little is commonly known about it other than its connection to rodents. Virginia ...

Measles made headlines last year and it's not stopping so far in 2026. It's one of five infectious diseases that doctors say we should keep an eye on this year. Emerging and re-emerging infectious ...

The Covid-19 pandemic left a lasting mark on the world, killing an estimated seven million people worldwide. Experts worry that it might have been just a "warning shot" with even deadlier pandemics to ...

The advance of H5N1 bird flu reminds us that novel pathogens remain a stubborn threat. Although a full-blown pandemic doesn’t appear imminent, the virus’s ability to infect a wide range of species — ...