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The US tested new recruits for syphilis in WWII but the test was expensive. However, if the share of recruits with syphilis was low, group testing could dramatically reduce the number of tests needed to separate the healthy from the sick.

The coronavirus pandemic has just made it incredibility difficult to script an endgame for the “Big Three” killer epidemics. But global leaders and agencies dedicated to AIDS, TB, and Malaria are gearing up to stem the tide.

Cayman Islands’ Premier, the Honourable Alden McLaughlin, has a reason to be proud. With just 8 cases of COVID-19 and one death, there have been no confirmed instances of community transmission in the Cayman Islands— all positive cases have been connec…

According to the 2020 SKYN Condoms Sex & Intimacy Survey, the most used dating app to find a committed relationship is Tinder, with 39% of respondents using the app most to find love.

During the Spanish Flu pandemic, just like now during COVID-19, not everyone agreed that restrictive social-distancing was the best policy, but the data tells the real story and we should be paying attention to it, says an infectious disease specialist.

With our health care system facing massive shortages of personal protective equipment including N95 face masks, many have been trying to make DIY masks.

As the virus spreads, one doctor is raising an army of volunteers to prepare the health infrastructure for the battle of a lifetime.

Thanks to decades of relative safety due to antibiotics and vaccines, the Navy has long downplayed the threat of communicable diseases and downsized its medical corps. The quarantine of the USS Theodore Roosevelt shows disease control must return to th…

“I don’t think it is legal,” Cuomo told CNN.

“This is not the way to do business,” the Governor of New York said about states competing for resources.