Medicare data indicated that most patients with rheumatologic conditions and living in areas where valley fever (aka coccidioidomycosis) is endemic were not screened for the disease before starting ...

Since May 2022, cases of monkeypox have increased globally, stirring fears of a new pandemic. A new study presents synthesized descriptions of its clinical characteristics, risk factors, infection ...

New analysis finds that climate change and other factors could soon make deadly Lassa fever a much bigger public health problem in Africa. In the study, which appeared on September 27 in Nature ...

Blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever), and histoplasmosis are the most prevalent endemic fungal diseases (mycoses) in North America. Authors of an opinion piece in Annals of Internal ...

This 1997 image was created during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). (CDC photo) Since 13 May 2022, cases of monkeypox ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . One in five blood donors from endemic areas had evidence of Jamestown Canyon virus infection. The proportion of ...

The ancient disease leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, named for the Norwegian physician Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen, who first identified the causative agent in 1873, may be endemic in ...