The discovery was made in a residential backyard in Maine where researchers were collecting rabbit ticks and testing them for ...

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The world's only research centre on mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease common among farmers, has been destroyed in ...

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Melting Arctic ice increases human and animal interactions, raising the risk of infectious disease spread. Researchers urge ...

Trauma Services reports that fentanyl has turned into a crisis for first responders, property managers, and maintenance ...

It's never a good thing when harmful bacteria are present on surfaces in hospitals, as they can cause life-threatening ...

DNA found in museum pieces could provide a unique opportunity to study the history and spread of infectious diseases, ...

A new outbreak in Angola , West Africa started on January 7, 2025, and it is likely to get worse as it spreads to more rural ...

Exposure to antibiotics prior to age 2 is associated with a 24% increased risk of asthma and 33% increased risk of food allergies in later childhood, researchers reported recently in the Journal of ...

The U.S. has tallied 8,077 cases of whooping cough in 2025, compared with 3,847 cases in the same period last year, federal ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of ...