Wide availability of infection control and diagnostic resources is required to control outbreaks early.

Researchers identify a possible driver of acute flaccid myelitis, a polio-like disease diagnosed in more than 500 children over the last few years.

A new study reveals an unexpected role for the immune cells and a previously unknown mechanism for the wasting syndrome.

Tweaking the genomes of two phages and combining them with a third phage helped to clear a persistent Mycobacterium infection in the patient.

A study of hundreds of gay couples finds that HIV-positive men taking antiretroviral medication don’t pass the virus to their partners, even when having unprotected sex.

Researchers analyze 146 samples from close to 80 sites, with nearly a third of samples coming from the Arctic Ocean.

So far this year, 465 infections have been reported, with numbers approaching their highest since measles returned to the country.

Viruses that infect plants and occasionally insects appear to cause infection with a divide-and-conquer strategy, multiplying separate segments of genetic material in different host cells.

The “London patient” may represent the second person cured of the infection by a cell transplant.