A rare, antibiotic-resistant and often deadly bacteria was identified in two patients at a Rhode Island Hospital in 2011, but its spread was stopped by timely treatment and infection control measures, ...

Once seen as a lasting medical breakthrough, antibiotics are steadily losing their effectiveness. Around the world, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first reported the infection in 2016, but the spread of the infection ...

The drug-resistant superbug fungus Candida auris is spreading rapidly across the US, infecting at least 7,000 people in 27 ...

A UK scientist devised a way to show how hospital germs can spread. In this video researchers used cutting edge technology to show how ventilation can quickly affect body temperature in the room and ...

Study findings explain why pandemics spread faster than detection efforts, based on U.S. data from H1N1 and COVID-19.

An Indiana boy died hours after he complained of only mild symptoms that ended up being a rare and fatal bacterial infection, his grieving mother revealed. Liam Dahlberg, 8, came home from school ...

“We all have this image of our bedrooms as being a sanctuary, but actually, there’s a surprising amount of bacteria, fungus and allergens there,” Carol McLay, an infection preventionist and president ...

Nearly 19,000 people died in this country in 2005 from what experts describe as a totally preventable disease. That's more than the number who died that year from Parkinson's, emphysema, AIDS or ...

Just like students in a university classroom, bacteria are adept at learning and responding to new information. Exactly how bacteria respond to environmental forces can be difficult to study when ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) can sometimes cause fever. This is more likely if the infection is severe or spreads to the kidneys. Generally, UTIs can affect the bladder, the kidneys, and the tubes ...