Epidemiologists consider how social media could be harnessed to predict disease outbreaks.
Epidemiologists consider how social media could be harnessed to predict disease outbreaks.
Only a quarter of Clostridium difficile infections in one hospital system were traced to contact with a symptomatic patient.
Scientists question data-gathering methods in a new study that estimates a doubling in global malaria deaths.
The US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity explains why it recommended redacting the details of studies reporting on a highly transmissible H5N1 strain.
Perfluorinated compounds, a class of manufacturing chemicals, may be harming the immune system in a way that reduces the effectiveness of standard childhood vaccines.
Japanese virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who led one of the recent studies on avian flu transmissibility, says that type of research is necessary.
The US Geological Survey’s database, a compendium of biodiversity information, will be shut down this month due to a slashed 2012 budget.
An incurable form of tuberculosis has turned up on the subcontinent.