CAPE TOWN - According to the Department of Health, 170 people die of tuberculosis (TB) every day in South Africa. The ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...

Diphtheria can lead to serious complications, such as respiratory failure, if left untreated. The outbreak thus far has ...

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Rod-shaped bacteria Shigella which cause food-borne infection shigellosis or dysentery (Picture: Shutterstock) Dysentery causes diarrhea, vomiting, cramps and fever and can jump from an infected ...

Several varieties of pre-cut Japanese pickles have been recalled over fears of being contaminated with a paralysis-causing bacteria.

Both TB treatment and TB preventive therapy involve taking lots of pills, usually for several months. Researchers are working ...

As a doctor at Al-Aqsa Hospital, I saw what a collapse in the ceasefire could mean—and what can happen when a patient is ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...