New research shows feverish temperatures make it more difficult for viruses to hijack our cells. A mouse study suggests it's the heat itself that makes the difference.

Infectious diseases remain one of the greatest global health challenges, with bacteria, viruses, and fungi continually ...

With victims numbering in the millions, malaria is an infectious disease caused by the bite of a mosquito carrying the ...

In the first study of its kind, mosquitoes captured high above Mali and Ghana were found to be infected with arboviruses, ...

Colorectal cancer immunotherapy advances as Photobacterium angustum identified to selectively colonize tumors with minimal ...

When the hospital germ Pseudomonas aeruginosa infects the body, it uses the sugar-binding protein LecA to attach itself to ...

Chytrid fungus is a scourge to global amphibian populations, but before it kills some frogs, it can produce symptoms that may ...

University of Minnesota researchers detected the pathogen that causes sudden oak death in Minnesota for the first time. Sudden oak death is a tree disease that has devastated forests on the West Coast ...