HEALTH chiefs have alerted the public to a “highly contagious” disease with “serious” complications. Scarlet fever was the ...

The infectious disease, which was most prominent in the Victorian era, largely affects children aged between two and eight.

Parents have been warned to look out for the symptoms of a highly contagious disease after a surge in cases among children.

Higher maternal selenium levels during pregnancy were associated with a lower risk of streptococcal infections in children, ...

Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ticks, and how it gained ...

Ancient genomes reveal that a bacterial fever jumped from human-borne ticks to lice around the time wool textiles became ...

A family visited a cave in Costa Rica while on vacation and began developing symptoms of a fungal disease called histoplasmosis.