STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State University faculty member provides critical updates regarding the spread of infectious diseases and rise of chronic and degenerative diseases in a second edition ...

Infectious diseases remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, posing significant challenges to healthcare systems. Beyond the direct ...

Poor William Stewart. This former US Surgeon General is unfairly credited with stating in 1967 that it was “time to close the book on infectious disease.” Although it appears that he never said such a ...

The book “Spillover” chronicles the investigations into the origins of past infectious disease outbreaks. Author David Quammen talks to survivors of pathogens like Ebola virus and researchers who ...

For those fascinated by microbes, infection, or how medical discoveries shape our modern understanding, Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases, a new book just published by ASM Press, ...

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Based on: Emerging Issues and Controversies in Infectious Disease, (Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century.) By I.W. Fong. 388 pp., illustrated. New York, Springer, 2009. $159., ...

NEW YORK - A new book will teach children all about the life of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert and a key figure in the public’s fight to stem the COVID-19 pandemic. "Dr.

In 1992, a blue-ribbon panel commissioned by the Institute of Medicine published “Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Human Health in the United States.” The report was a broadside aimed at the ...

Mississippi State anthropology Professor Molly Zuckerman is the co-author of “Emerging Infections: Three Epidemiological Transitions from Prehistory to the Present,” a book that discusses the spread ...