With an estimated 2.1 billion airline passengers roaming the planet last year alone, infectious diseases are spreading faster than ever before, the U.N. health agency said Thursday, calling on governments to follow its revised regulations for fighting dangerous health crises.
“Vulnerability is universal,” WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said in an introduction to the annual World [...]

The Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the jailing of a tuberculosis (TB) patient who failed to comply with her treatment regimen. Ruby Washington had been diagnosed with noninfectious TB in 2005 by the staff of a TB control clinic. When she failed to appear to receive medication, the City of Milwaukee Health Department issued a directly-observed therapy [...]