What is an "outbreak" for measles? Dr. Catherine Troisi is an infectious disease epidemiologist with UT Health Houston School of Public Health, answering questions.

At least 37 countries have reported cases of the new coronavirus, or COVID-19, The New York Times reports. Beyond China, the epicenter of the outbreak, infections have emerged in South Korea and ...

An outbreak of infection is considered a pandemic when it grows very fast. It starts out slowly at first and then takes off. Sometimes, people call this type of growth exponential.

Health officials will consider multiple factors. — -- The outbreak of locally spread Zika virus in Florida has led to a large response by state and local health authorities to curb the ...

What's the difference between isolation and quarantine? How about the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic? What does COVID-19 even stand for?

The latest outbreak of mpox clade I began in Congo, affecting a region that already has experienced several destabilizing conflicts.Mpox clade I is considered more transmissible and the symptoms ...

The multistate outbreak confirms health experts’ fears that the virus will take hold in other U.S. communities with low vaccination rates and that the spread could stretch on for a year.

To let you discover for yourself, we simulated an outbreak of a hypothetical disease, about as contagious as the flu. (A lot less contagious than measles.) We’d like you to contain it.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency, the highest level of alarm under international health law. It follows a public ...

Outbreaks have been reported in Austria, Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia, with apparent cross-border and person-to-person transmission. ... While Germany is not considered an affected country, ...