Disease

"I have also had a lot of opposition from people telling me to get rid of the cats as well," Shelby Wardlaw told Newsweek.

"As of July 2023, 2 laboratory-confirmed cases of B. canis human infection have been identified in the UK," a government report states.

Both a sedentary lifestyle and shorter white blood cell telomeres may be linked to greater risk of developing dementia, researchers have found.

Viruses from bats are likely to be more deadly to humans than viruses from other animals, due to bats' evolved resistance to inflammation.

Veterinarian explains why puddle waters will make your dog sick.

Let ours be the generation that ends malaria once and for all—because whether in Maryland or Madagascar or the Mekong, no one should die of a mosquito bite.

Scientists are concerned that built-up immunity and vaccinations may not protect against this new strain of the virus.

Eris is now the most common variant in the U.S, making up 17 percent of all cases and as of August 8, it has been detected in more than 50 countries.

There have been 11 cases of the mosquito-borne virus in Florida this year, despite it not being endemic to the U.S.

Lake Tulare has seen an outbreak of avian botulism, caused by toxins produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum, which kills birds by paralysis.

"The CDC has issued a travel advisory in Florida due to LEPROSY," one Twitter user wrote. "The Biblical jokes write themselves for Ron DeSantis."

"Your digestive health and any related health issues can improve now!! I'd be excited, I guess I'm a weirdo," said one user on TikTok.

Researchers have developed a way to vaccinate people such that the ticks that cause Lyme disease cannot be colonized by the bacteria that cause the disease.

In the first cases of H5N1 bird flu detected in cats in the country for seven years, two cats have died from the virus in South Korea.

Kristian Tucker told Newsweek: "I couldn't believe that I might only have a couple of years left with my baby and that he would suffer so much."

The little girl, aged only two, is thought to have died from rickettsiosis caused by bacteria transmitted by ticks.

Residents in Tulare County are being urged to be cautious as mosquitoes swarm during the summer months.

Archaeologists in Quebec City have so far uncovered a dozen skeletons and expect to find more as street excavations in the area continue.

In early July, four residents in the Tuva region, which borders Mongolia, were diagnosed with anthrax after eating the meat of an infected horse.

Cayetana and Celia are identical twins with the same DNA, but only Cayetana suffers from progressive osseous heteroplasia, turning her body tissues to bone.

The woman's daughter claims the hospital neglected her mother and intends to go to court.

"The risks posed by infectious diseases in the U.S., such as malaria, and their prevention strategies must not be undermined," a global health professor said.

It is extremely rare for women with Alström syndrome to get pregnant, in fact, it has only been recorded once before but never from IVF.

Six malaria cases were confirmed to have been acquired in one Florida county - the first contracted in the U,S. in 20 years..

"He will soon be 2 years old and in that time he has only been at home two months," the baby's father said.

Scientists have found that the virus from 6 million years ago contributes to the development of severe brain tumors.

Scientists have found that Parkinson's disease progressed more quickly in patients who had experienced this sensation.

The CDC has documented at least five cases of locally acquired malaria cases in the past two months, marking the first time in 20 years.

The impromptu diagnosis of the life-threatening cancer may have saved Chris Meffen's life.

"Some tick-borne infections, so Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, are highly likely to spread in the U.K.," one disease scientist said.