Having measles doesn't benefit the immune system, as some believe. Science has documented that it kills the immune cells we ...

Your immune system needs more than meds to fight viruses A nutrient-packed diet can help ease symptoms and speed up your ...

Bacteria steal DNA from silent viruses and use it like a memory bank. That memory helps them protect future generations.

Deep funding cuts and widespread layoffs impact everything from local public health outreach to global disease surveillance, making us more vulnerable, experts warn.

Researchers at the University of Cologne have found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines have a lasting impact on the innate ...

Measles can erase the immune system's "memory" and cause a rare but fatal health condition. The MMR vaccine prevents these ...

Measles doesn’t just cause illness, but also erases the immune system’s memory, leaving people vulnerable to infections ...

"Since its identification in 1882, over 1 billion people have died from tuberculosis, making it one of the deadliest infectious diseases in ... by the body's immune system, so no symptoms are ...

“Even if your measles virus infection seemed mild and you kind of blew through it, it doesn’t mean that it was mild on your immune system,” Mina added. In a new book, pediatric infectious ...