The disease best known to health professionals is cat scratch disease, caused by Bartonella henselae. It's important to understand the real prevalence of these diseases, especially in isolated regions ...

Lyme disease is an infectious disease caused by borrelia burgdorferi, a bacterial species that can spread to people and animals from the bite of a deer tick—also called a black-legged tick—carrying ...

The Florida Department of Health - Orange County has confirmed that it is investigating a reported outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease.

A research team at Leibniz-HKI has described a new enzyme that renders the highly toxic molecule malleicyprol harmless.

An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease cases linked to a Florida gym has brought cases to a 10-year-high in the state.

Tuberculosis (TB) is once again the infectious disease responsible for the most deaths worldwide, according to a Tuesday announcement from the World Health Organization (WHO). The contagious disease ...

After scratching his leg on a boat trailer in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi a 77-year-old man died on July 21, 2025. The culprit behind the tragic progression of what seemed like a routine wound was an ...

In recent years, quantitative real-time PCR tests have been extensively developed in clinical microbiology laboratories for routine diagnosis of infectious diseases, particularly bacterial diseases.

In recent years, a growing number of scientific studies have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer's disease isn't just a disease, it's an infection. One such study, published in 2019, suggested ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars – often known ...

New research suggests gum disease prevention may rely on disrupting bacterial communication instead of killing microbes, ...

Chronic Lyme isn’t the only aspect of this very real infection associated with conspiracy.