Epidemiologists are public health professionals who investigate human diseases. They analyze the patterns of diseases to help reduce the risk of negative outcomes. Looking for clues at the scene of ...

Want to be a disease detective? Applications are pouring in for a little-known program within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Officials are expecting more interest this year, and ...

I was lucky — or unlucky — enough to have a front-row seat for one of the most surprising and frightening infectious disease outbreaks in recent history. I was working as a reporter in TIME’s Hong ...

In 1999, hikers on Vancouver Island suddenly began falling mysteriously ill. Doctors found strange nodules growing on their lungs, and several people died as cases mounted over the next few years. The ...

ATLANTA — Disease detectives from around the world are in Atlanta this week as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hosts its 2025 Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Conference at the ...

Nearly half of an elite US epidemiology program known as "disease detectives" were dismissed by the Trump administration in a ...

The hundreds of Camp Fire Girls, aged eight to 16, who thronged the four camps around Lake Vera in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada had a wonderful time. They hiked through the pinewoods, ...

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers show up and turn deadly. The Great Alaska Earthquake rocked Anchorage in 1964 ...