Imagine a fish worth more than a small fortune. The Totoaba, a creature of the Gulf of California, holds the dubious distinction of being the world’s most expensive fish, with a price tag exceeding $8 ...

Fungal infections, such as athlete’s foot and ringworm, occur when one type of fungal microbe becomes too prevalent in one area of the body so that the immune system cannot defeat it.

One of the ways the CDC has stepped up its surveillance of H5N1 infections in people is by asking state public health laboratories to perform additional testing on all patient samples that test ...

As a result, hundreds of thousands of children are increasingly vulnerable to diseases once largely relegated to history books. Most of them predominantly affect young children, like measles ...

Copyright: © 2025 Published by Elsevier Ltd. May, 2025 is the deadline for WHO Member States to conclude their protracted negotiations on a Pandemic Agreement at the ...

“It is a hard battle to win — but we hope to stay one step ahead of the diseases.” The prone primate is one small part of the stuttering global hunt for “Disease X” — an as yet unknown ...

A salivary gland infection can develop when harmful bacteria or viruses build up in the salivary glands. These are located in the head and neck and produce saliva. It typically causes swollen ...

The viral infection surges are putting such on a strain on health systems that Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge had to stop accepting ambulances earlier this week. Patient numbers ...

Having psoriasis, an autoimmune condition that causes inflamed skin patches, can make you more likely to develop certain skin infections. A combination of factors—such as a damaged skin barrier ...

In its latest report, the China CDC said that human metapneumovirus (hMPV), a common respiratory infection, remains at high levels. Flu activity across the country is expected to gradually decline ...