Background: Chagas disease, resulting from the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is an important cause of heart failure, stroke, arrhythmia, and sudden death. Traditionally regarded as a tropical disease ...

Members of a Hendersonville community have a smelly problem on their hands.

In updated information published Wednesday, the Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed nine cases of rabies found in animals throughout the Texas Panhandle, including six in Childress ...

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E376,Causal Agent Beech leaf disease (BLD) is caused by an invasive nematode Litylenchus crenatae subsp. mccannii (Lcm; Figure 1). Nematodes are microscopic roundworms. Most nematodes are free-living, ...

Skunks sightings in our area have been on the rise with more seen out and about, leaving some wondering why are they seeing ...

In these autoimmune diseases, T cells mistakenly target the body’s own tissues instead of invading viruses or bacteria as they would during normal immune responses. Treatments focused on T cells ...

One truth that even the RSVP Board and the County Commission will have difficulty calling “fake news” is as follows: “when it looks like a skunk, walks like a skunk and smells like a skunk….it is very ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases in America.

Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families Vaccine hesitancy grew as memories of these diseases faded ...