The most common viral type, which is highly contagious, is epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC)— what most people are talking ...

Most of the conjunctivitis obtained while playing in the water is epidemic keratoconjunctivitis. This is a disease in which the conjunctiva is infected with adenovirus, accompanied by symptoms ...

Dr. Gary Slutkin is a distinguished epidemiologist, formerly with the World Health Organization (WHO), where he founded the Intervention Unit, which designed innovations in epidemic control.

But despite appearing to have all the hallmarks of a potential epidemic, the latest outbreak developed in a very different way. It was the ninth Ebola outbreak to hit the Democratic Republic of ...

Since 2017, he has made what he's diagnosed as America's "loneliness epidemic" the center of his public-health agenda, writing several op-eds and a best-selling book and appearing on dozens of ...

In 1905 the final yellow fever epidemic in the United States took place in New Orleans, the city that had seen some of the nation's worst outbreaks. Though the danger of mosquitoes transmitting ...

It was also the site of the most fearsome epidemic to strike the young nation. Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the city's most prominent physicians and a signer of the Declaration of Independence ...

A smallpox epidemic killed between 5 and 8 million of the native population in the following two years. Over the next century, less than 2 million would survive this and other communicable ...

The first wave of the pandemic had arrived. (What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?) The Spanish flu strain killed its victims with a swiftness never seen before. In the United ...

Four in five 11- to 17-year-olds around the world are not taking enough physical exercise, according to the first such analysis. The World Health Organization says children's health is being ...

In June 1832, two events stirred up political conflict in Lower Canada: the Place d'Armes by-election, which turned into a tragedy costing several lives, and the cholera epidemic. At the beginning ...

The American people are being smothered by public opinion polls. Every day there seems to be some new poll expected to give precious insight into the presidential horse race that the news media is so ...