Mosquitoes that transmit La Crosse virus disease live in wooded areas in the U.S., mainly in the Upper Midwest, Mid-Atlantic ...

Smallpox is caused by the variola virus ... in the following two years. Over the next century, less than 2 million would survive this and other communicable diseases brought by European explorers.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob is a rare brain disorder caused by infectious proteins called prions, which causes rapid, progressive ...

Across the tropics, farming communities—an estimated 800 million people—rely on cassava for food and income. However, in recent decades, harvests have been decimated by rapidly spreading diseases.

A team of San Antonio-based biomedical researchers trained a machine learning algorithm to identify more than two dozen ...

Ticks can spread Lyme disease and give people red meat allergies, and now there’s increasing worry in Minnesota about another ...

HCM and DCM are among the most common inherited heart diseases. Both can cause serious problems like heart failure and sudden ...

Glycogen storage disease type 1a (von Gierke disease, GSD1a), one of the most common types of glycogen storage diseases, is caused by the ... Here we report on two new mutations causing GSD ...

Its notoriety occurred for two reasons: First, it is the only common disease that can cripple an otherwise healthy child overnight, a fact that caused hysteria among parents; and secondly ...