Infectious Disease

A graduate student and a research group at Mayo Clinic have developed a new “Goldilocks” Ebola virus vaccine that could induce a “just right” immune ...

With the help of a local preschool Mayo Clinic researchers may have found a way to slow the spread of the seasonal flu, according to ...

The recent measles outbreak in Minnesota reached an unfortunate milestone (and extensive national news coverage) on June 1, 2017 when it exceeded the total number ...

Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group will begin work on developing a vaccine to protect against the Zika virus, according to Mayo vaccinologist Gregory Poland, M.D. ...

Malaria cases have dropped dramatically in the last decade in part due to the use of rapid diagnostic tests ...

Since the first vaccine paved the way for the near-eradication of smallpox over 200 years ago, societies have looked to vaccines as a means to ...

Mayo Clinic’s role in developing the first effective tuberculosis treatment Patricia Thomas was trying to keep up her spirits. Her cough was not improving. Already thin, ...

Since the 1980s, pneumocystis pneumonia, or PCP, has infected thousands of HIV/AIDS patients. For nearly three decades, Mayo Clinic internist Andrew Limper, M.D., has researched ...

First, we’re not talking about the bird flu that decimated so many turkey and chicken farms this year. No, this is the H5N1 strain that ...