THAT'S SICK! HUMANS CAN IDENTIFY INFECTED PEERS FROM A PHOTO

Further study is needed to determine whether levels of infection detection are similar across diseases and ethnic groups... READ MORE›

FUNGAL DISEASE COULD KILL OFF SNAKES AROUND THE WORLD

Although molting can resolve most cases, snakes can die from the infection... READ MORE›

ENGLAND HIT BY 50-YEAR SPIKE IN BACTERIAL INFECTION

A new study says England is seeing a dramatic increase in cases of scarlet fever, an infectious disease that mostly affects children... READ MORE›

NORTH KOREA CLAIMS IT HAS DISCOVERED CURE FOR AIDS, EBOLA, MERS AND SARS

The North's claim comes as rival South Korea fights an outbreak of Mers that has killed two dozen people and infected more than 160 since last month... READ MORE›

WINNIPEG LAB EMPLOYEE POSSIBLY EXPOSED TO EBOLA VIRUS

An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg has potentially been exposed to the Ebola virus... READ MORE›

HIV SPREADS LIKE COMPUTER WORMS, SAY SCIENTISTS

New model equates spread of worm across local networks and internet with progress of Aids virus through the body, suggesting early treatment is vital... READ MORE›

HIGH-RISK MS THERAPY GIVES TRIAL SUBJECTS 'LAST SHOT AT LIVING'

The clinical trial, led by The Ottawa Hospital's Dr. Mark Freedman and Dr. Harold Atkins, involved 24 patients over 13 years... READ MORE›

DOCTORS RUDELY WARN PUBLIC NOT TO SNUGGLE KITTENS

Cat-scratch fever is caused by a bacteria found in fleas... READ MORE›

COMMENT: WHAT DOCTORS KNOW ABOUT DEATH THAT THE REST OF US DONT

We want to believe that death is optional, so we don't talk about it, and we don't make plans for our deaths... READ MORE›

?6M STATIN TRIAL RAISES HOPE DRUG CAN BE USED TO TREAT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Most of those diagnosed have relapsing MS and about 65 percent of these cases develop secondary progressive MS, usually within 15 years... READ MORE›

CURE FOR CHRONIC PAIN FOUND: WORLD FIRST AS PATIENT FITTED WITH PERMANENT SPINAL CORD IMPLANT

Dr Charles Brooker the specialist who fitted the implant said it was a big advance because the device could record signals emerging from the nervous system... READ MORE›

BRAZIL EBOLA CASE TESTS NEGATIVE

Souleymane Bah went to a public health centre in the town of Cascavel in the southern state of Parana after suffering a fever... READ MORE›

TESTS BEGIN IN DENTIST VIRUS PROBE

Desmond D'Mello Low infection risk The death of a woman treated at the practice in Daybrook, Nottinghamshire is also being investigated by police... READ MORE›

BRAZILIAN SCIENTISTS FIND NEW ZIKA-LINKED BRAIN DISORDER IN ADULTS

Brito presented her findings on Sunday at the American Academy of Neurology meeting in Vancouver... READ MORE›

PAULINE CAFFERKEY THE BRITISH NURSE WHO CONTRACTED EBOLA WHILE VOLUNTEERING IN SIERRA LEONE HAS LEFT HOSPITAL AFTER MAKING A COMPLETE RECOVERY

Miss Cafferkey said she was happy to be alive and thanked staff at the Royal Free Hospital in London who she said had saved her life... READ MORE›

WHO DECLARES END OF ZIKA EMERGENCY BUT SAYS VIRUS REMAINS A THREAT

Officials on WHO's Emergency Committee made clear the Zika still constitutes a global public health threat... READ MORE›

NORTH KOREA CLAIMS 'CURE' FOR MERS, AIDS AND EBOLA

According to the pro-North Korea website Minjok Tongshin, the drug was originally produced in 1996... READ MORE›

RE-EMERGENCE OF EBOLA IN LIBERIA REMAINS A MYSTERY

The six new infections in Liberia since June 21 include two deaths... READ MORE›

U.S. FDA KNEW DEVICES SPREAD FATAL 'SUPERBUG' BUT DOES NOT ORDER FIX

Last month, Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle said a bacteria spread through contaminated scopes had infected 32 people over two years 11 died... READ MORE›

EBOLA EPIDEMIC FUELLED BY 'SUPER-SPREADERS': STUDY

Most of the people who were infected with Ebola in the 2014 West Africa epidemic contracted the viral disease through super-spreaders, researchers say... READ MORE›

AUSSIE DIAGNOSED WITH ZIKA AFTER BALI MONKEY BITE, EXPERTS WARN OF MISSED CASES

They had stumbled on a 27-year local man who contracted the disease despite having never travelled outside of Indonesia... READ MORE›

AUTOPSY CONFIRMS CHASE MARTENS DIED FROM DROWNING

Chase Martens, the two-year-old Manitoba boy whose disappearance drew national attention and was the subject of an extensive search, died from drowning, an autopsy confirms... READ MORE›

U.S. TO ISSUE NEW EBOLA CARE GUIDELINES, WATCH LISTS TO SHRINK

There are still 75 health workers in Dallas who have isolated themselves and are being monitored... READ MORE›

EBOLA NURSE PAULINE CAFFERKEY NEARLY DIED FROM MENINGITIS, DOCTORS SAY

The latent Ebola virus has not previously been known to trigger a life-threatening illness so long after the original infection... READ MORE›

NEW CLUES INTO EBOLA AS ILL NURSE IMPROVES

We've never quite been sure if it was related to the Ebola virus or other illnesses, said John M... READ MORE›

CLIMATE CHANGE MAY HAVE HELPED SPREAD ZIKA VIRUS ACCORDING TO WHO SCIENTISTS

As climate change reaches almost every corner of the Earth's ecology, different diseases could be unleashed... READ MORE›

MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA TO BUY ISRAEL'S NEURODERM FOR $1.1 BILLION

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma will pay 39 for each Neuroderm share, a premium of about 17 percent to its Friday close... READ MORE›

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, whose disease detectives have investigated duodenoscope-transmitted infections since 2013... READ MORE›

NERVOUS SYSTEM BIRTH DEFECTS 20 TIMES LIKELIER FOR ZIKA-HIT MOTHERS, STUDY FINDS

By contrast, central nervous system abnormalities appeared in 60 infants and fetuses per 1,000 pregnancies when mothers were infected with Zika... READ MORE›

EBOLA IS OVER IN WEST AFRICA, SAYS WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION

The World Health Organisation has declared the end of the Ebola epidemic in west Africa, with all known chains of transmission of the virus stopped... READ MORE›

ZIKA VIRUS COULD BE LINKED WITH 'WHOLE SPECTRUM' OF DISORDERS

The Zika virus is primarily spread by mosquitoes and is currently present in more than 50 countries and territories worldwide, including many in Latin America... READ MORE›

IN LIBERIAN SLUM, EBOLA QUARANTINE MAGNIFIES MISERY

A Liberian Red Cross burial team on the move to pick up a suspected Ebola victim in the impoverished area of West Point, Monrovia, Liberia... READ MORE›

JAPANESE WOMAN DIED FROM TICK-BORNE ILLNESS AFTER CAT BITE, HEALTH MINISTRY SAYS

A woman in western Japan died from a tick-borne disease last year after being bitten by a stray cat, the health ministry said... READ MORE›