Outbreaks of measles virus in the UK and U.S. are not related to hypothetical “Disease X” - a placeholder term for an unknown future pandemic-causing pathogen - as suggested by misleading social media ...

Infectious disease agents include bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites; all have had major impacts on public health and welfare. Viruses are among the simplest of these agents and for this reason ...

The World Health Organization is opening up the definition of airborne pathogens – such as Covid-19, influenza and measles – to include when respiratory droplets spread through the air and when they ...

It typically causes an upper respiratory infection that ranges from mild to severe. Although the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is very effective at controlling the disease, dropping ...