The bacteria thrives in warm waters, and is fatal for 1 in 5 people ...
The 'fleshing-eating' disease caused by the Vibrio vulnificus bacterium is expected to increase with rising oceanic ...
For patients with early infection with Lyme disease (LD), standard and modified two-tiered testing (STTT and MTTT) diagnostic algorithms have low sensitivity, according to a study published online ...
It's rare, but be warned. Vibrio vulnificus, the horrific infection nicknamed the "flesh-eating" bacteria that ...
When we think of scabies, we tend to think of 19th-century London: its gloomy streets swollen with people covered in rashes, vehemently scratching themselves. But scabies is far from an itch-inducing ...
It can take eight weeks for the scabies rash to materialise 🤒 Scabies is an itchy rash caused by mites that burrow under the skin. There has been a significant increase in cases in the last three ...
Remote Indigenous communities are bearing the brunt of the latest diphtheria outbreak. Inadequate housing may be one reason ...
A Johns Hopkins Medicine study involving a dozen people with the inflammatory skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), which mostly affects skin folds, is believed to be the first to provide ...