Tag: Infectious diseases
Leprosy-causing bacteria found in armadillo specimens highlight value of museum collections...
Daniel Romero-Alvarez, University of Kansas
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One easy way to fight antibiotic resistance? Good hand hygiene
Kristofer Wollein Waldetoft, Georgia Institute of Technology
Can washing your hands help stop the evolution of antibiotic resistance? Mathematically,...
What is spillover? Bird flu outbreak underscores need for early detection...
Treana Mayer, Colorado State University
The current epidemic of avian influenza has killed over 58 million birds in the...
How do blood tests work? Medical laboratory scientists explain the pathway...
Rodney E. Rohde, Texas State University and Nicholas Moore, Rush University
Medical laboratory testing is the heartbeat of medicine....
Chickenpox and shingles virus lying dormant in your neurons can reactivate...
Andrew Bubak, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Over 90% of the world population has the virus that causes...
Bird flu has made a comeback, driving up prices for holiday turkeys
Yuko Sato, Iowa State University
An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza has spread through chicken and turkey flocks...
58% of human infectious diseases can be worsened by climate change...
Tristan McKenzie, University of Gothenburg; Camilo Mora, University of Hawaii, and Hannah von Hammerstein, University of Hawaii
Climate change...
Monkeypox is now a national public health emergency in the U.S....
Kathryn H. Jacobsen, University of Richmond
After news broke that the U.S. declared monkeypox to be a public health...