To epidemiologists, therefore, cruise ships with onboard outbreaks are the equivalent of floating Petri dishes bursting with ...

Pictured working in early March, Joyce Close, supervisor, Bureau of Communicable Disease, left, and Mary Proctor, Public Health nurse coordinator, right, are among health workers tracing contacts of ...

IDAHO FALLS — Behind every confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in eastern Idaho is a team of public health investigators looking to contain it. Epidemiologist Mike Taylor called his job being a ...

It’s the ultimate needle in a haystack. A minuscule strand of avian flu RNA in a scoop of mud and bird droppings is helping B.C. virus detectives track how avian flu is spreading through wild bird ...