Emergency nurses routinely care for patients before the cause of their symptoms is clear. They make decisions with the ...

Plague is a serious bacterial infection caused by Yersinia pestis. There are five forms of plague: bubonic, pneumonic, septicemic, meningeal and pharyngeal. Plague occurs primarily in semi-arid ...

Andes hantavirus is rare, geographically concentrated, and the only hantavirus currently known to spread person to person. In this episode of Transmission Interrupted, Jill Morgan, Dr. Gaby Frank, and ...

When a patient arrives at a hospital with symptoms consistent with a high-consequence infectious disease (HCID), timely laboratory testing is critical for diagnosis, clinical decision-making, and ...