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In a new study researchers explain how seasonal H1N1 influenza became resistant to the most widely used antiviral agent for treating and preventing flu.

Speech-language pathology student Traci Reynolds spent two weeks in Nicaragua this summer learning how to be an interpreter.

Kari Morgenstein with Dr. Stephen Corbin, dean of Special Olympics University, at the ribbon cutting ceremony for…

From Africa to Bangladesh and Cambodia to Haiti, research faculty in the department of environmental and global health are conducting projects all over the world. Read more about their work in the department's summer newsletter.

In 2009 when test results on the ailing New York woman who had vacationed in Key West came back positive for the dengue virus, it was the first reported case in Florida since 1934. Dana Focks, Ph.D., a research professor in the department of environmental and global health who develops mathematical models for vector-borne disease, is examining the cause of the outbreak.

A new technique honed by University of Florida scientists can track rapid molecular changes that occur in cholera strains during epidemics and researchers hope the genetic analysis will help stamp out such outbreaks.

The University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions has appointed Gregory C. Gray, M.D., M.P.H., founding chair of the college’s new department of environmental and global health.