Pathogens are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics. With the goal of developing new therapeutic approaches to ...

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Though some researchers believe it should be labeled endemic in the United States, most Americans don’t need to worry about ...

A new study has discovered another way to potentially prevent COVID-19. Researchers at Saarland University in Germany headed a clinical trial that found a nasal spray could reduce the risk of ...

A mom of three is speaking out and sharing a warning after she contracted and nearly died from a bacterial infection.

Four men in Georgia, all living in the same county, mysteriously became infected with a potentially deadly soil bacterium that's normally found in the tropics and subtropics, particularly Southeast ...

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Candida auris, a deadly fungal infection, is spreading in Illinois and Indiana, part of a larger U.S. increase. Although first identified in Japan in 2009, the first U.S. case was reported in 2016.

Two states north of Tennessee are experiencing an outbreak of a deadly fungal infection. And it's not the first time that it has caused worry. Candida auris, a potentially deadly fungal infection, has ...

Millions of people around the world are estimated to have Chagas disease, a potentially fatal, parasitic illness.

Arizona cases of a serious antibiotic-resistant infection known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales, or CRE, have been rising statewide and are at higher-than-normal levels so far in 2025, state ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KTVI) — An adult in Missouri has died after they became infected with a brain-eating amoeba earlier this month, officials have confirmed. The person, who has not been publicly ...