INFECTION

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.

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.

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.

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.

A recent study found that the common way of boarding airplanes can contribute to the spread of infections among passengers.

Doctors might be able to treat drug-resistant bacteria by using their own signals against them.

The illness is usually caused by the ingestion of food or water contaminated by feces of those already infected by it.

Doctors can fight off drug-resistant bacteria and fungi by using the microbes’ own defenses against them.

Scientists analyzed ice from a mountain glacier to find that a medieval plague made people sick enough that they stopped polluting the atmosphere and environment with lead.