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Developing new drugs is time-consuming and expensive. Only one out of five drugs to treat infectious diseases make it past…

For more localized data on antibiotic resistance in your community, check out ResistanceOpen. It is an online platform developed by…

One of the only national estimate of antibiotic use in the U.S. is connected to food animal production. Beginning in…

The American Public Health Association, a Washington, D.C.,-based nonprofit that aims to improve the health of the public and achieve…

SARS-CoV-2 Variant Classifications and Definitions. The CDC has updated its list of coronavirus variants that the agency is watching, including…

Resolve to Save Lives, a nonprofit led by Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has…

In December 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced that it had updated its food surveillance data page,…

Group B Streptococcus is a bacterial infection that can be particularly prevalent during pregnancy. Although it often does not have…

First modern infectious disease map: A father of epidemiology is John Snow – a London-based physician who figured out how cholera…

The National Council for Home Safety and Security, a trade association representing home alarm companies, has created a research division…

The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics published a data brief in February 2024 that provides data on HPV vaccination…

Vaccination rates based on CDC-recommended immunizations have historically been very high in the U.S., but they took a hit during…

Influenza is tracked through the extensive and granular Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report (FluView). For emerging viruses, the CDC will…

To find global health data and statistics on malaria, one of the world’s oldest and most prevalent disease, look at…

A good way to visualize global disease hot zones is to look at them, as they are unfolding on a…

Reported illnesses from mosquito, tick, and flea bites have more than tripled in the U.S., with more than 640,000 cases…

Nearly half of the world’s population remains at risk for malaria with 216 million reported cases in 2016 and over…

Any time there is an outbreak of an infectious disease, the public generally wants to know how common it is…

The most complete record of national and states rates of immunization coverage for each vaccine are in the National Immunization Surveys.…

Diseases spread by mosquitos, ticks and other insect vectors are on the rise in the U.S. as the planet continues…