The illness is caused by the microscopic parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis, which spreads via food or water contaminated with ...

A public health expert explains why tick-borne diseases are on the rise, what they are, and how to keep yourself and loved ones protected.

A concerning increase in global rates of severe invasive infections becoming resistant to key antibiotics has a team of infectious disease researchers at the Houston Methodist Research Institute ...

A team of researchers from VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, the VCU School of Dentistry and the University of ...

A research team at the University of Greifswald's Research Training Group RTG-PRO "Proteases in pathogen and host: importance in infection and inflammation" has discovered a new mechanism by which ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), infectious diseases are the second global cause of death after ...

A resolution led by Malawi and adopted unanimously recognizes that combating these conditions, which affect more than 1 ...

Most mutations that cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, according to a major study of human protein variants that was published in Nature ...

As the planet edges towards 1.5°C of global warming, a new study led by the Natural History Museum, London has revealed that scientists still have only a limited understanding of how climate change is ...

Michigan is witnessing the largest parasitic outbreak in its history, with nearly 1000 reported cases of cyclosporiasis ...

Fungi are having a cultural moment, thanks in large part to the horror franchise The Last of Us, in which society has collapsed after an outbreak of a fungal infection that turns humans into violent, ...

Around 6,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer communities across Eurasia were settling down and living with livestock — and the animals’ diseases came along for the ride. A massive genomic analysis of ...