For some infectious diseases, this may be true. Climate change appears to be changing where and when some infectious diseases occur. However, this is not the case for all infectious diseases. Several ...

Scientists from Finland and the UK have uncovered groundbreaking evidence that heart attacks may be triggered by infectious processes rather than just cholesterol and lifestyle factors. Hidden ...

Beginning with the Oct. 23, 2015, Supplements to Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), CDC will publish the summaries of all notifiable conditions – infectious and noninfectious – at the same ...

NEW YORK (AP) — People around the world are living longer, healthier lives than they were just half a century ago. Climate change threatens to undo that progress. Across the planet, animals — and the ...

International travel exposes millions to skin diseases acquired abroad, with dermatologic disorders ranking as the third most common health problem for returning travellers. Tropical and subtropical ...

Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves, and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera, and anthrax, a ...

The belief that infectious agents may cause certain chronic diseases can be traced to the mid-19th century, when cancer was studied as a possible infectious disease. This effort met with little ...