Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF Infectious disease spread is increasingly common due to ...

Hidradenitis suppurativa is not contagious. It cannot be spread from person to person or from item to person. It is a ...

Getty Image This is a medical first. Alaskan officials are ringing the warning bells after a man developed an infection from ...

Most people associate foot fungus with sweaty gym environments, but medical experts reveal this persistent infection has sneakier ways of spreading. Dr. Michael Thompson at Northwestern Medicine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Climate change may be putting millions more people at risk from an infection-causing fungi, which is likely spreading due to ...

A single contaminated ingredient in the recent E. coli outbreak revealed how quickly modern food service can transform from a network of restaurants into a web of transmission. The incident wasn't ...

As U.S. measles infections spread, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a Fox Nation interview there could be some health benefits to getting the measles. During the March ...

According to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), three out of 150 veterinarians working with large animals unknowingly contracted bird flu. The discovery was made ...

For wrestlers, the biggest obstacle isn’t always injury—it’s infections. Before every practice at the Jennings Wrestling Facility within the Covelli Center, student employees mop each mat inch by inch ...

It seemed our 15-year-old mixed breed short-haired cat developed a swelling on the bridge of her nose in about one or two months along with some sneezing. We didn’t think too much of it until one day ...