Several years ago, I was contracted to perform an evaluation study for an existing biosafety level-3 (BSL-3) biocontainment laboratory on the West Coast. The lab was actively performing research on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Infectious diseases don’t respect borders. Because of the global economy and unprecedented mobility, everyone on the planet is ...

What do hantavirus, the Yersinia pestis bacteria, the 1918 influenzas virus, and the H5N1 virus have in common? The virus found in rodent droppings, the culprit behind the Black Death, the cause of ...

Director of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories and Chair of Microbiology, Boston University Microbiologist Ronald Corley has gone to work every day throughout the pandemic as ...