A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about how poxvirus hijacks its host's protein synthesis machinery ...

Normally, a vacation to a tropical locale involves sunburns, maybe some bug bites, and sand stuck in your hair. For one ...

Twelve of 13 members of one family fell ill upon returning to the United States from a Costa Rica trip in late December. A ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control, on January 17, 2025, a Georgia infectious disease physician notified CDC of suspected histoplasmosis cases. Prior to the report, the family had ...

The CDC says the fungus that causes histoplasmosis lives along the Ohio and Mississippi river deltas. It has been detected in states in eastern, southern and midwestern areas of the country.

A bat cave in Costa Rica is likely the reason a family caught a fungal lung disease known as histoplasmosis. In December of last year, a family of 13 visited Arenal and Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica ...

"We've taken the coccidioides organism, the fungus that causes Valley Fever ... Fever may only be restricted to the southwest, but Histoplasmosis and Blastomycosis, the other big fungal infections ...

Pope Francis has advanced five people’s paths to sainthood after approving decrees promulgated by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints on March 28. Blessed Peter To Rot of Papua ...

The U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica has issued a warning about a heightened risk of histoplasmosis associated with caving activities. Costa Rica is regarded as endemic for the disease, attributed to the ...

During the second outbreak acute pulmonary histoplasmosis developed in 87 ... as an indication of recent infection; and other causes of epidemic erythema nodosum could readily be excluded.

Before the Trump administration closed USAID’s doors, the agency regularly routed funding to causes aligned with George Soros’ nonprofit empire, terrorists and drag queens. The agency came under ...