They're calling it “bacterial vampirism." E. coli and other species crave human blood serum as a food source, a recent experiment revealed.
A dangerous species of liver fluke has been found in Southern California around the Colorado River, scientists report.
In a report this week, doctors have documented the first case of a human brain infection caused by a roundworm normally found in Australian snakes.
The authors of a recent case report say it's the latest evidence that leprosy has gained a foothold in the Sunshine State, though no one's sure why yet.
Nearly 100 confirmed or probable cases of blastomycosis since January are linked to the Billerud Paper Mill, health officials say.
Sweating sicknesses, New World epidemics, and other strange clusters of illness with no clear cause.
The Ebola-like virus has so far killed five people out of eight known to be infected in the East African country.
At least 9 people have died from the Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever in Equatorial Guinea's first known outbreak of the disease, according to the WHO.
Only around 200 cases of brain-eating Balamuthia mandrillaris have been documented worldwide, but the infection is 90% fatal.
The mutations found in these mosquitoes could pose an "unprecedentedly serious threat" if they spread further, scientists warn.
Dengue has been found in native mosquitos and at least one human, suggesting that it could be spreading locally in the state for the first known time.
Not every country has fully opened back up yet—and conditions apply.
Covid-19 and monkeypox aren't the only germs out there that have public health experts worried.
The Academy appears to be afraid of offending some unnamed anti-vaccine stars.
A trial of monkeys treated with monoclonal antibodies found the virus can hide in the brain and sometimes return to cause illness and death.
The parasitic nematode used to infect millions a year, leaving many victims permanently disabled.
About 1,000 people in the U.S. are hospitalized annually by neurocysticercosis, which is caused by tapeworm cysts migrating to the brain.
The private key used to sign the EU's digital covid certificates appears to have leaked, leading to forged certificates for people—even dead ones like Hitler.
So far, 15 cases of leptospirosis have reported in the city this year, with 13 people hospitalized and one dead.
Canada reopened to vaccinated Americans in August.
