The Latest Breaking News from infectious disease

In light of the approaching winter months combined with the recent lifting of the national disaster act, South Africans have anxiously been watching an increase in COVID infections. The Conversation Africa spoke to infectious disease specialist Veronica Ueckermann about the current trajectory of the pandemic in the country.

This could become the largest outbreak of monkeypox in countries outside of Africa — but there's no need to panic, an infectious disease expert says.

Infectious disease was first recorded in 1970 but a surge in cases has led to the largest outbreak in Europe to date

One of the cases is being treated in a specialist infectious disease unit in London

Dengue fever and leptospirosis cases are on the rise in State

The patient is being treated by experts at the infectious disease unit at the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Over the course of the pandemic uptake of the measles vaccine has dropped, leading to the WHO warning that the UK is vulnerable to an "epidemic" of the very infectious disease.

The World Health Organisation is urging parents to get their children vaccinated against the highly infectious disease

African, Asian nations face the greatest threat of increased virus exposure from animals to humans

Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070 — and it's likely to increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans, especially in Africa and Asia, according to a new study

BOSTON — The closely monitored Boston-area COVID-19 wastewater data has started falling in the past few days, sending an encouraging signal to local infectious disease experts who are “cautiously optimistic” about this virus drop.