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Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025

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

Infections had turned his lungs to soup and had to be cleared before transplant. Humans can’t live without lungs. And […]

Savage microbe Whatever was laying waste to his eye seemed to have come from inside his own body, carried in […]

Savage microbe Whatever was laying waste to his eye seemed to have come from inside his own body, carried in […]

In the end, his combination of rash, malaise, liver and kidney problems, facial paralysis, and swelling all fit with syphilis. […]

Skip to content It’s not a first—there was a case last year—but it’s still disturbing. The tip of a screwworm […]

For eight months, a 35-year-old man in India was bothered by his left eye. It was red and blurry. When […]

A 51-year-old man showed up at a hospital in Germany looking as though he was wasting away, with swelling and […]

About two months after receiving a donated kidney, a 61-year-old man ended up back in the hospital. He was tired, […]

B. suis is an extremely infectious bacteria that’s usually found in pigs. The most common symptom in pigs is reproductive […]