Ehrlichia chaffeensis is an intracellular bacterium responsible for human monocytic ehrlichiosis, a potentially severe tick-borne disease. This pathogen has developed sophisticated mechanisms to ...

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2007;26(6):475-479. The diagnosis of HME and initiation of appropriate antimicrobial therapy were delayed in nearly all patients in this study. These delays occurred not ...

A new virus related to the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses has been detected in shrews in the U.S. However, scientists say ...

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between ...

UC San Francisco's Rais Vohra, MD, explains recent increase in reported virus infections and the risks of consuming raw cow’s milk.

A recent paper published in Science magazine by researcher Blanca Barquera, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences at ...

H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread amid commercial and backyard poultry, and additional cases have been reported in ...

In a new case study, researchers from North Carolina State University found that a family suffering from illnesses that ...

Researchers say they have discovered an entirely new class of life inside the human body, and it is very similar to a virus.

For the study, 20 participants without any hearing problems were recruited. Long believed to be inactive or vestigial, scientists believe that the muscles behind the human ear are actually ...

The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites across the country are clearly remnants of archaic hominins — the formal name for species in the human lineage — who ...

Unfortunately, at this point, we do not know how they will affect the human body. This issue has inspired eighth grader Anushka Sable to investigate how these plastics will affect human blood ...