A deadly, little-known parasitic infection known as Chagas disease, once considered to only be a threat abroad, may be endemic in the United States, researchers argue in a new study. Chagas disease is ...

Contagious diseases like measles, COVID-19, influenza, norovirus, and tuberculosis pose significant global health challenges.

Most Americans have not even heard of Chagas disease, yet an estimated 288,000 people in the United States are infected-many without knowing it. Also known as the kissing bug disease, it is caused by ...

Health officials are reporting an increase in a rare but serious infectious disease spread by rodents — just four months after Gene Hackman’s wife, the concert pianist Betsy Arakawa, died from it. A ...

Iridoviruses are a diverse group of large, double-stranded DNA viruses responsible for a range of systemic infections in fish. These infections, commonly manifesting as infectious spleen and kidney ...

Actor Gene Hackman’s cause of death was a form of heart disease, with Alzheimer’s as a significant contributor, and his wife died of a rare virus typically carried by rodents, New Mexico officials ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Case Western Reserve University is hoping to offer the first therapy for an inherited eye disease leading to blindness. Shigemi Matsuyama, an associate professor of ophthalmology and ...

Long-term, low doses of THC mitigate many harmful side effects and inflammation caused by HIV and antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to new research from Texas Biomedical Research Institute.