Infectious Diseases
An infection is the immune response to a colonization of a host organism by parasite species. Infecting parasites seek to use the host's resources to reproduce, often resulting in disease. Colloquially, infections are usually considered to be caused by microorganisms or microparasites like viruses, prions, bacteria, and viroids, though larger organisms like macroparasites and fungi can also infect.
Infectious Diseases Stories
We spend time worrying about scary-looking diseases a world away, but may ignore some killers in our own backyard.
Two Georgetown professors call on WHO to take emergency steps to combat the disease in light of a vaccine shortage.
Medical Daily takes a look at whether antibacterial soaps are actually bad for our health.
They can all make you ill, but what's the difference between them?
CDC researchers find that doctors are speeding along antibiotic resistance by prescribing the lifesaving drugs when they aren't needed.
A study of a cluster of Ebola cases that appeared in Liberia last year, months after the country was declared Ebola-free, has found that the virus re-emerged after lying dormant in a female survivor.
Puerto Rico has 683 confirmed cases of the Zika virus, including 65 pregnant women with symptoms of the virus and one death, U.S. health officials said on Friday.
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday said a range of options to provide funds to fight Zika, adding that lawmakers take the threat seriously but have not yet decided the best way to allocate resources to prevent and combat the deadly virus.
Two senior Obama administration officials wrote congressional leaders on Tuesday to urge legislation be passed to fund the fight against the Zika virus, as concerns mount the United States will soon face locally transmitted cases of the disease.
The number of confirmed and suspected cases of microcephaly in Brazil associated with the Zika virus remained stable at 4,908 in the week through April 23, just one case more than a week earlier, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
Chinese doctors have reported the remarkable survival of an infant born to a mother with full blown and ultimately fatal rabies.
Drying your hands may be just as important as washing them when it comes to the spread of bacteria.