Also known as communicable diseases, infectious diseases are caused by bacteria, viruses or parasites and can spread from one person to another. Conditions like malaria, tuberculosis and HIV have a ...

Candida auris is adapting to warmer ecosystems, including the human body. The first US case was reported in 2016. In 2023, 4,514 new C. auris cases were reported in the United States, according to the ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

(CNN) — This week, officials confirmed 21 cases of Legionnaires' disease and one death in Marshall County. This comes after an outbreak this summer in New York that led to seven deaths and 114 ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Tomatoes represent a $1.9 billion annual crop, nationwide. They’re planted on 330,000 acres across 18 states, but diseases such as bacterial spot can ravage the popular crop.

Microspheres that sense gastrointestinal disease are suspended in solution (L), and then attracted to the side of a test tube by a magnet (R) so researchers can easily retrieve them from biological ...

With the start of 2026, we are looking back at what we achieved last year and ahead to the coming year. One highlight of the coming year includes the 25-year anniversary of our first issue being ...