Emerging infectious diseases can affect your entire family. Our adult and pediatric infectious disease specialists help ease symptoms while minimizing the risk of infection spread.

Experts at our Travelers Clinic provide education, vaccines and preventive therapies for international travelers. These measures can minimize your risk of getting sick with an emerging or reemerging infectious disease when visiting other countries.

We have dedicated programs aimed at controlling emerging infectious diseases that occur in hospitals and group care settings. We also specialize in treating drug-resistant infections.

C. auris is a fungal infection that may require several different antifungal medications. The fungus can enter your bloodstream, causing a life-threatening infection. It mostly affects hospitalized patients and those who have breathing tubes, feeding tubes or catheter lines.

COVID-19 is a contagious respiratory infection that affects your lungs and breathing. Older adults and those with weakened immune systems may get pneumonia and other life-threatening complications. Vaccines protect against COVID-19.

Measles is an extremely contagious reemerging viral infection. It causes a rash inside your mouth and all over your body, as well as a high fever, cold-like symptoms and watery eyes. The virus spreads in droplets when you cough or sneeze. It can live on surfaces and in the air for up to two hours. The measles vaccine largely eliminated this infection in the U.S. But unvaccinated, infected people can spread the virus to others who aren’t vaccinated.

Mpox (formerly called monkeypox) is a viral infection that causes a rash, fever, cold-like symptoms and extreme fatigue. The rash can affect your face, chest, hands, feet and genitals. It spreads through skin-to-skin contact. The mpox vaccine lowers your risk of getting sick and having severe complications.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a reemerging infectious disease. You can get sick after breathing the bacteria into your lungs. TB causes a severe cough, chest pain and fever. You’re more at risk if you travel to certain parts of Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe where the disease is common. The disease also spreads more easily in group living environments, such as shelters, dormitories and prisons.

Whooping cough (pertussis) is a highly contagious bacterial infection that causes intense coughing fits. It’s especially dangerous to infants and young children. This reemerging infectious disease is on the rise among people who aren’t vaccinated.

Some bacteria, viruses and fungi that cause infectious diseases stop responding to the medications that used to destroy them. Drug resistance makes it harder to cure infections and stop diseases from spreading.

Certain infectious diseases like TB and malaria are more common in countries that don’t have good access to quality medical care. People who travel to these countries may unknowingly become infected and bring the illness home with them.

Adults who put off or don’t get vaccinations for themselves or their children can get and spread vaccine-preventable infections like measles, polio and whooping cough.