Disease

Kristian Tucker told Newsweek: "I couldn't believe that I might only have a couple of years left with my baby and that he would suffer so much."

The little girl, aged only two, is thought to have died from rickettsiosis caused by bacteria transmitted by ticks.

Residents in Tulare County are being urged to be cautious as mosquitoes swarm during the summer months.

Archaeologists in Quebec City have so far uncovered a dozen skeletons and expect to find more as street excavations in the area continue.

In early July, four residents in the Tuva region, which borders Mongolia, were diagnosed with anthrax after eating the meat of an infected horse.

Cayetana and Celia are identical twins with the same DNA, but only Cayetana suffers from progressive osseous heteroplasia, turning her body tissues to bone.

The woman's daughter claims the hospital neglected her mother and intends to go to court.

"The risks posed by infectious diseases in the U.S., such as malaria, and their prevention strategies must not be undermined," a global health professor said.

It is extremely rare for women with Alström syndrome to get pregnant, in fact, it has only been recorded once before but never from IVF.

Six malaria cases were confirmed to have been acquired in one Florida county - the first contracted in the U,S. in 20 years..

"He will soon be 2 years old and in that time he has only been at home two months," the baby's father said.

Scientists have found that the virus from 6 million years ago contributes to the development of severe brain tumors.

Scientists have found that Parkinson's disease progressed more quickly in patients who had experienced this sensation.

The CDC has documented at least five cases of locally acquired malaria cases in the past two months, marking the first time in 20 years.

The impromptu diagnosis of the life-threatening cancer may have saved Chris Meffen's life.

"Some tick-borne infections, so Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, are highly likely to spread in the U.K.," one disease scientist said.

The moose was the first-ever to test positive for rabies in North America, and appeared "stumbling, drooling profusely," with "bare patches of skin."

One viewer of the video with 8.2 million likes wrote: "This is the most wholesome thing I've seen all week. I think the pigeons might disagree though."

The CDC warned that a new surge of mpox cases has been evident across the country, and may continue into the summer.

The virus attacks the brain and the membrane surrounding it, which can result in severe neurological symptoms in some patients.

"I definitely was shocked," he told Newsweek. "Especially by the ones on my jeans as they were quickly crawling up my leg."

"I've known about them for years but I found a lot of them that day," photographer Josh Coogler told Newsweek.

The third person ever recorded to have contracted H3N8 bird flu has died in China, with all three infected people having been exposed to live poultry.

In the third ever case of a human infection by H3N8 bird flu—a different virus to the H5N1 bird flu currently in the U.S.—a woman in China has died.

The trial is aimed at patients suffering from post-operative Graft-Versus-Host-Disease. This is a common complication following bone-marrow transplantation.

The virus is a close relative of Ebola and causes very similar symptoms, including hemorrhaging and organ failure.

"If I walk any faster my eyeballs will puff out of my head. Look at my eyeballs! And my ears go flip flop, flip flop," said the voiceover.

The parasite that causes babesiosis is now endemic to three more states in the Northeast: Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

The fungal infection Candida auris has seen huge spikes in cases across the United States, mostly affecting patients already in the hospital.

Frogs across the world are being infected by a skin-infecting fungus that is responsible for driving many species into being endangered or even extinct.