Under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s guidance, the CDC no longer recommends routine vaccination to protect against meningococcal ...

Captive green iguanas are known carriers of salmonella, a bacteria that can cause diarrhea, fever, and stomach cramps in humans. Iguanas can also transmit the rare bacterial infection mycobacterium ...

Dr. Sameer Bhati, Public Health Analystn says that infectious diseases have been with us forever, together with the Common ...

The new CDC recommendation takes a much narrower view of the meningococcal disease threat. Because of "the low incidence ...

Avian tuberculosis, also known as mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) or MAC lung disease, is a respiratory illness. It can lead to symptoms such as chronic cough, shortness of breath, and weight loss.

Details of their preclinical work in mice are provided in a new Nature Microbiology paper titled “Polypeptides synthesized by common bacteria in the human gut improve rodent metabolism.” According to ...

Not all cell walls are created equal. Take the peculiar makeup of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium’s cell wall. It might play a role in lingering symptoms of Lyme disease — the most common ...