Category Archives: Infectious Disease

Infectious Disease

 Infectious Disease October 02, 2023

More adults likely to get a flu vaccination than receive an updated COVID-19 vaccine

Varicella zoster virus, the type of herpes that causes both chickenpox and shingles, causes an itchy, painful rash. No effective treatment currently exists for the virus. (Getty Images)

 Infectious Disease August 08, 2023

New molecule could treat shingles, herpes viruses

GRA Eminent Scholar Ralph Tripp (Photo by Peter Frey/UGA)

 Infectious Disease July 27, 2023

Commonly used drug effective against COVID-19

Regents’ Professor John Drake of the Odum School of Ecology is an infectious disease modeler who is studying how Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) may spread across the United States after it is introduced from Asia or Oceania, including Australia. (Photo by UGA Marketing and Communications)

 Infectious Disease July 26, 2023

Drake To Develop Spatial Interaction Model For Japanese Encephalitis Virus

Syringes.

 Infectious Disease May 23, 2023

Vaccine hesitancy persists among parents

Plasmodium Vivax

 Infectious Disease April 25, 2023

All the pieces matter: UGA researchers collaborate to solve malaria puzzle

Dr. Satya Thippareddi administers a COVID-19 test to a student at the Gold Clinic at the University Health Center. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)

 Infectious Disease February 02, 2023

COVID drug trials don’t match patient population

 Infectious Disease January 31, 2023

New vaccine targets life-threatening fungal infections

Girl with mumps

 Infectious Disease January 10, 2023

Waning vaccine protection leads to resurgent mumps

single-dose intranasal COVID vaccine

 Infectious Disease October 31, 2022

Another tool in the fight against Covid-19