There will be a new pandemic, few doubt it. There have been them and there will be them, and possibly more frequently as a ...

Forty or fifty years ago, thanks to antibiotics, scientists thought medicine had all but eradicated infectious agents as a major health threat. Instead, the past two decades have seen an alarming ...

It is caused by an infectious agent whose precise identity is still ... it also provides classic examples of uncertainty in the process of science, the complex and vital relationship between ...

While malaria is the best-understood example of an infectious disease that has driven ... some of our most complex and challenging selective agents. In particular, researchers can look for ...