By Surina Venkat
Infectious Diseases
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![<p>Children infected with measles receive treatment at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 6, 2026.</p>]()
- Backgrounder
What Does the CDC Do?
![<p>The CDC’s Emergency Operations Center amid the Ebola crisis in 2014.</p>]()
- Backgrounder
What Is the FDA’s Role in Public Health?
![<p>The FDA operates laboratories across the country to inspect food, medical, tobacco, and other products.</p>]()
![<p>THAILAND: Infectious-disease researchers catch bats to study.</p>]()
By Claire Klobucista and Lindsay Maizland- Backgrounder
Why Hasn’t the World Eradicated Polio?
![<p>A health worker marks a child’s finger during a vaccination campaign near Islamabad.</p>]()
- Backgrounder
What Does the World Health Organization Do?
![<p>A nurse working with the WHO prepares Ebola vaccines in the Democratic Republic of Congo.</p>]()
![<p>Gerson Antonio Zaldivar, a migrant from Honduras, poses in front of the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.</p>]()
By Thomas J. Bollyky, Nick Graetz, Joseph L. Dieleman and Samantha Kiernan![<p>Top U.S. infectious disease official Dr. Anthony Fauci and U.S. President Joe Biden deliver an update on the Omicron variant at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. on November 29, 2021.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Marcelo Louzada holds a photo of his brother Valdemar Louzada, thirty-eight, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Valdemar suffered from obesity and died from COVID-19 in May 2020.</p>]()
By Thomas J. Bollyky, Serena Tohme and Samantha Kiernan![<p>A doctor tests a child for malaria at the Ithani-Asheri Hospital in Arusha, Tanzania on May 11, 2016.</p>]()
By John Campbell![<p>An Indigenous girl from the Parintintin tribe sits on a cut tree trunk in Traira village near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil, on August 16, 2019. </p>]()
By Stewart M. Patrick![<p>Bernice Bohannon is comforted by nurse Jalissa Hurd following her COVID-19 vaccination, at the IU Health Neuroscience Center in Indianapolis, Indiana on March 16, 2021. </p>]()
By Stewart M. Patrick- By Thomas J. Bollyky
![<p>Arlette Kavugho, an Ebola survivor who works as a caregiver, carries Kambale Eloge, whose mother died of Ebola, in Katwa, near Butembo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on October 2, 2019.</p>]()
By John Campbell![<p>Muslim worshippers attend Friday prayers inside a mosque, after houses of worship reopened in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Lagos, Nigeria on August 7, 2020.</p>]()
By John Campbell
