Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic ...

A new study looking at deadly animal African trypanosomiasis has revealed how the parasite Trypanosoma congolense evades the ...

Each year, the world loses about 12,000 lives due to Chagas disease. This alarming statistic prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

As human activity alters the environment, kissing bugs and parasites will ultimately adapt. The geographic range of infected ...

Chagas disease, which is otherwise known as American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical parasitic disease caused by the ...

People with low levels of magnesium may have a higher risk of chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and certain cancers, according to a 2024 study published in the ...

Mounting evidence shows that COVID-19 triggers an overactive or misdirected immune response that may continue to afflict patients even once they have recovered from the disease’s most acute ...

A major health alert has been issued for anyone who has visited a major city in the last 10 days after several cases of a potentially life-threatening disease were confirmed. Over the past three ...

Source: AAP / Dean Lewins Six people have been hospitalised as hundreds of thousands are warned to monitor for symptoms after a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Sydney's busy city centre.

Vaccines remain a cornerstone of prevention, but low vaccination rates, waning immunity in older adults, or the absence of available vaccines — as is the case with HSV — highlight the need for new ...

What's more, "strep" – which also causes a bizarre flesh-eating disease – had become shockingly resistant to common antibiotics. Group A streptococcus (GAS) – which may be best known by one ...