Contagious And Infectious Diseases

UNICEF Cameroon Representative Ms. Musu Clemens-Hope speaks with UNICEF Radio about the outbreak of cholera in Northern...

U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to New York in late September to address a summit to spur the achievement of U.N. goals to combat poverty ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected later this month to decide whether to approve genetically engineered salmon for human ...

Flu shot season is expected to start early this year. . . Several pharmacy companies, including Walgreens and CVS, already are advertising the...

Transmission of the AIDS virus seems to be "out of control" among gay men in France despite an overall fall in the number of new HIV cases in the ...

Tests have found rabies in a coyote that was shot by a policeman after a rash of attacks on humans in a New York City suburb. . . The Westchester ...

Malaria remains a serious global health problem, killing more than one million people per year. Treatment of the mosquito-borne illness relies on...

A team of scientists from the Scripps Research Institute, the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, and the US Naval Research...

Treating intensive care patients who develop life-threatening bacterial infections, or septicemia, with insulin potentially could reduce their...

Dendritic cells are the grand sentinels of the immune system, standing guard 24/7 to detect foreign invaders such as viruses and bacteria, and...

Topic: Contagious And Infectious Diseases