Contact-tracing apps were widely deployed during the Covid pandemic. They aren’t as helpful during smaller outbreaks.

More than two dozen passengers left the cruise ship before the outbreak was identified. The race is on to connect with them to monitor their health — and the health of those they've interacted with.

Health officials are optimistic that a recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, which has tragically claimed three lives, will not escalate into a wider epidemic. While human-to-human transmission ...

A recent Nature journal study analyzed over seven million data points from the National Health Service (NHS) coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) app to understand how app measurements can be ...

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Marcel Salathé is an associate professor and head of the Digital Epidemiology Lab, School of Life Sciences, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...