diseases-conditions

New York epidemics have shaped the city’s public health infrastructure, policies, and cultural responses for centuries. From early yellow fever and cholera waves to the 1918 i...

Zoonotic STDs refer to infections that can move between animals and humans, typically through close contact, not ordinary sexual intercourse between people. The term is often mi...

Yes, it is possible to get rabies from a dead bat, but the risk depends on whether the bat was infectious at the time of death and whether fresh infectious neural tissue (such a...

Rabies in foxes is a serious but preventable viral disease that affects the nervous system. Understanding how a fox gets rabies begins with the virus itself, which spreads prima...

Hantavirus refers to a family of viruses carried by certain rodents, notably deer mice in North America and Asian field mice in parts of Europe and Asia. Because the disease is...