INFECTION

The girl started showing symptoms three to four times a day while preparing for exams.

Officials with the city Health and Parks departments revealed that of the 26 raccoons found dead inside the park, two tested positive for canine distemper virus.

A strain of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria was found on a tampon the 16-year-old had used in the hours leading up to her death, Daily Mail reported.

A Colorado hospital warned former surgical patients of a possible viral infection due to unsterilized equipment.

Marquel Brumley's death came just a week after doctors told his family that the virus would clear on its own, reports said Wednesday.

The Johnson County Health Department said Tuesday that the three infants, all under a year old, are too young to be vaccinated for the disease. 

Human papillomavirus, or HPV, might hide in the crevices of the tonsils until they cause head and neck cancer, even in people who seem otherwise healthy.

A flesh-eating bacteria called Vibrio Vulnificus has infected over 300 people nationwide since 2008.

Eating fast food is like giving your body a bacterial infection, according to new research into how the high-fat diet affects the immune system.

Thousands of people die from the flu each year, how does the virus cause death?

A 12-year-old in California died after doctors misdiagnosed her bacterial blood infection as the flu, her mother says.

State of nature: Ants will poison their own teenagers to stop them from spreading fatal infections to the rest of the colony.

Scientists gave an old antibiotic superpowers so it could fight off the drug-resistant infections known as superbugs.

A Texas woman contracted the Vibrio bacteria in Louisiana and subsequently died from the infection.

So far two cases were reported from Connecticut, two from New Hampshire, three from California and one each from New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska, Virginia and Washington.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a person has extremely low chances of getting necrotizing fasciitis if he or she has a strong immune system and follows good hygiene and wound care.

An alarming number of patients have been diagnosed with Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome (STSS), in Japan including 66 in Tokyo, the highest of any prefecture, 40 in Kanagawa, 32 in Aichi, 31 in Fukuoka, and 28 in Hyogo.

It’s not uncommon when you develop a hacking cough from deep down in your lungs to cough up a gel-like substance known as phlegm, or sputum. While you may think nothing of it, simply associating it with your sickness, the color of the mucus can tell you some things about the pathogens invading your body.

The deceased woman's husband said it came as a “huge shock” for him. “This has been incredibly difficult to process. She was taken from us with notice of a horrible, deadly disease,” he added.

Many decorative contact lenses, like those used on Halloween, can seriously damage a person's eye.

The CDC announces more cases of Campylobacter infections linked to Petland puppies.