Infectious diseases can spill over from animals to humans as well as spill back. Each cross-species transmission gives pathogens a chance to evolve and spread even further.

Long before the pandemic, health care workers were experiencing high levels of stress, burnout and compassion fatigue, all of which contribute to reduced quality of care for patients.

A new study finds the risks of developing long COVID declined over the first two years of the pandemic. But unvaccinated adults were more than twice as likely to get long COVID compared with those who were vaccinated.

Reactions like disgust are part of the behavioral immune system that helps you avoid disease. Usually conservatives are more fearful of contamination – but something unusual happened during COVID-19.

Enhancing influenza vaccine cross-protection is essential to alleviate the public health burden of epidemics and pandemics, researchers say.

While women and men self-reported similar vaccination rates, unvaccinated women had less intention to get vaccinated than men.

People with diabetes are about twice as likely to become seriously ill with COVID-19 compared with those who don’t have diabetes.

Singer Amy Winehouse died from alcohol toxicity in 2011, the same year that the American Society of Addiction Medicine publicly recognized addiction as a brain disorder.

Human factors − such as how people produce food and how they organize themselves and live together − influence disease outbreaks.

Researchers have developed a new vaccine technology that has been shown in mice to provide protection against a broad range of coronaviruses with potential for