Infectious disease – The TechBriefs

You’re likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you’ve never heard of

There’s a virus you may have never heard of before that is estimated to infect up to 90 percent of […]

A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted […]

A debilitating infection from the parasitic Guinea worm is inching closer to global eradication, with an all-time low of only […]

A measles outbreak in South Carolina that began in October is now wildly accelerating, doubling in just the past week […]

The disease usually develops seven to 14 days after an exposure, but it can take up to 21 days (which […]

In 2022, CDC researchers found an unexpected pattern. Since 1997, there had been seven cases of infections from Bacillus group […]

The quarantine period for measles is 21 days from the exposure, which is the maximum incubation period before the tell-tale […]

Creeping For anyone enjoying—or at least trying to enjoy—Thanksgiving in America, you can be thankful that these worms are not […]

A child in Los Angeles has died of a measles-related brain disorder stemming from an infection in infancy, the Los […]

Skip to content The bacterium is known to live in Mississippi, but the new cases may expand its range. Four […]