Contagious diseases like measles, COVID-19, influenza, norovirus, and tuberculosis pose significant global health challenges.

Viral infections trigger inflammation that raises heart disease risk, study finds. Vaccination against COVID, flu and ...

COVID triples the risk of a heart attack, researchers say, while flu quadruples the risk. Shingles, HIV, and hepatitis C ...

India is witnessing a sharp rise in viral infections, warns ICMR. Top diseases include Dengue, Influenza A, Hepatitis A, ...

An annual conference about infectious diseases is seeing a dramatic attendance decline, in part because Centers for Disease ...

With hand, foot and mouth disease, or HFMD, spreading through certain parts of the country, there are certain symptoms to look for and ways to treat the illness.

Flu season is here. The summer wave of the coronavirus has receded, but the winter uptick is likely around the corner. Shots ...

People who caught the flu were up to six times more likely to have a heart attack in the month after the infection.

Pathogens were found in 11.1 per cent of the 4.5 lakh patients tested by the network of labs under the Indian Council of ...

The world’s deadliest infectious disease urgently requires new and effective antibiotics. Researchers have created a promising new compound that may mark a major step forward in the global effort to ...

Scottish researchers have successfully edited the genes of experimented pigs to resist classical swine fever (CSF), a highly infectious and often fatal disease that poses a major threat to pig farming ...