The American family had traveled to Costa Rica from Texas, Washington and Georgia after all of them fell sick. Officials said ...

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

Andrej Spec, MD, leads the Invasive Fungal Infections Clinic at WashU Medicine, a globally recognized center that treats ...

Twelve people on a family vacation in Costa Rica in December 2024 were sickened with histoplasmosis when they came in contact ...

It would be surprising if radiologists and pathologists in the endemic area of histoplasmosis were not impressed with the frequency of splenic calcification, even if their impressions are not ...

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 ...

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

Have Floridians finally figured out what causes most alligator attacks? A group of researchers from the Sunshine State say yes. A recent study from the University of Florida delved into the topic ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

It is a very broad medical term. Rashes can vary widely in appearance. Their causes range from insect bites to HIV and reactions to medications. A rash can affect one part of the body or cover a ...