On May 8, Japan’s government reclassified Covid-19 as a “Class 5” disease according to the Infectious Diseases Control Law, putting it on the same level as the seasonal flu. This comes three years and ...
Responsibility for public health protection from communicable diseases exists at three government levels in the U.S. (federal, state/tribe, and local/municipal), with states having the authority to ...
Five years after COVID-19 in 2020, the first-class legal infectious disease will be newly designated. It is a nipavirus infection, a zoonotic disease that occurs in India, Bangladesh, and Malaysia.