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 ...

Diabetes and pre-diabetes affect over 100 million people in the US, costing more than $325 billion each year. It’s now predicted that one in three children born since 2000 will develop the disease.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study from June this year found that the epidemic of loneliness reflects nuances in Korean culture, which “emphasizes relational orientation” – or people defining themselves in relation ...

It is important to strengthen epidemic prevention by applying lessons learned on epidemic management and how to prevent the stoppage of basic services, and to raise the level of preparedness in ...