Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President, Dr. Anthony Fauci cruised the Sunday shows today and spent some time with Margaret...

The rise of several significant variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has attracted the attention of health and science experts worldwide. In an editorial published in JAMA: The Journal...

The Ad Council and the COVID Collaborative today announced a new resource designed to address healthcare professionals’ questions about COVID-19 vaccination. The videos [link]–which feature an...

A clinical trial to test the safety, tolerability and efficacy of a combination treatment regimen for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) consisting of the antiviral remdesivir plus a highly concentrated...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews On Wednesday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reported that preliminary data analysis from a clinical trial on the investigational antiviral drug, remdesivir,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Taiwan death The Taiwan CDC reported today (computer translated) on on two additional COVID-19 infections–number 19 and 20, including the first death. The first...

By Robert Herriman @infectiousdiseasenews The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) has reported seven confirmed human Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus infections to date. This is the...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In light of the increase in Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) in Massachusetts this and recent years, US Senators Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter...

The number of measles cases reported to date in the US has topped 700 cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). From January 1 to April 26, 2019, 704 individual cases...

The unusually large outbreak of yellow fever now occurring in rural Brazil deserves careful attention by world health authorities, notes Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy...