Dept. of Infectious Disease and Global Health

Cummings School’s Jeffrey Mariner, who played a key role in eradicating the devastating cattle plague from the wild, weighs in on an effort to destroy laboratory samples of the virus

The pill is the first known working device capable of non-invasively and accurately assessing the profile of bacterial species inhabiting any stage of the gastrointestinal tract

The rare but potentially fatal mosquito-borne virus infected 12 people in Massachusetts last summer.

Watch how hard a baby painted turtle must work to hatch from its egg in this time-lapse video of 13 hours condensed to just 40 seconds!

Cummings School Professor Sam Telford, an expert on infections spread by mosquitoes and ticks, explains

A program celebrating two decades of activism includes awards to Janetrix Hellen Amuguni and Jennifer Baldwin and a talk by U.S. Senator Edward Markey

The Lyme Disease Challenge event November 1 seeks students and faculty from disparate fields to combat the disease

As a viral pneumonia continues to spread, an expert on human outbreaks that originate in animals shares what we know so far about 2019n-CoV

Two Cummings School researchers studying schistosomiasis find molecules that may hold the key to a cure