DDT was used to control the spread of typhus-carrying lice during WWII. | Centre for Disease Control/Public Domain Captain Douglas Peterkin and his fellow medics struggled to empty the huts in ...

Zoonotic outbreaks consistently peaked during June, July, and August, researchers from the ICMR-National Institute of ...

A non-profit that provides showers to the homeless population is at risk due to proposed cuts in the new City of Los Angeles ...

The largest artifact in the touring exhibition Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away., currently on display at the ROM in ...

Dr Philip Ugbodaga, the Medical Director of the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Benin City, has given kudos to President Bola Almed Tinubu over his commitment to improving the quality of healthcare ...

Epidemics of infectious disease often come in waves, but the causes of these waves aren't clear, frustrating efforts to ...

Three people, including a child younger than 5, have been sickened by a measles outbreak linked to an exposure on a Turkish ...

Banking on natural infection to control the outbreak would lead to months, if not years, of a dismaying cycle in which cases subside and then surge. Even if such community-mediated protection were ...

A PROTRACTED epidemic of 21 postoperative infections due to M-nontypable, Group A betahemolytic streptococci ceased after the implicated source, an anesthesiologist, was found to be an anal ...

The Vests are just one local family affected by the recent hepatitis A outbreak in the Roanoke Valley ... from the blood and helps fight off infections. According to the American Liver Foundation ...