Our bodies host a variety of microorganisms, and the microbial communities in and on our bodies have to maintain the right ...

On July 12, a new deadly Nipah virus infection was confirmed in a 52-year-old man in the Palakkad district of Kerala, marking ...

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A research team led by the Leibniz-HKI in Jena has uncovered a new way in which the yeast Candida albicans can damage human ...

Surgeons with beards show lower MRSA colonisation rates, challenging assumptions about facial hair and infection risk.

Although outbreaks of Ebola virus are rare, the disease is severe and often fatal, with few treatment options. Rather than ...

Scientists have found measures to combat the Coronavirus pandemic had little impact on the reporting of foodborne infections ...

Zoonoses—diseases that spread from animals to humans—began to gain prevalence some 6,500 years ago with the rise of animal ...

Mosquito breeding ground – Stagnant water is the ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes. These insects can carry and transmit ...

A batch of mosquitoes in Manchester has tested positive for west Nile virus, city health officials said Thursday.

The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled.

The only creatures known to conceive offspring from more than two parents are salamanders. Females from the genus Ambystoma ...