When cold and flu season comes around, we take steps like getting our flu shots and taking immune supplements to strengthen ...

Researchers are gauging the effectiveness of electron beams in the fight against foodborne pathogens in poultry. "Impact of ...

How do pathogens invade the lungs? Using human lung microtissues, a team at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has uncovered the strategy used by a dangerous pathogen. The bacterium targets ...

When our body is attacked by a pathogen, the pathogen has to find ways to evade our immune system and invade our cells to cause infection and illness. Reporting in Cell, researchers have now ...

Results showed that environmental contamination was more frequently detected in farms using rendering compared to composting.

How does your immune system decide between fighting invading pathogens now or preparing to fight them in the future? Turns out, it can change its mind. Every person has 10 million to 100 million ...

A number of factors influence the way the virulence of a virus — that is, how harmful it is to its host — affects its ability to survive and spread; in some cases, higher virulence may help a virus ...

Infections with ESKAPE pathogens are associated with high mortality rates and other severe outcomes like prolonged hospitalization, higher treatment failure rates, and increased risk of intensive care ...

The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus, as seen under an optical microscope. It's listed as a critical priority on the WHO's new report of most harmful fungal pathogens. BSIP / Education Images / Universal ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. It all started when Christopher Mason’s 3-year-old daughter licked a subway pole. Like any parent, he was horrified, but also keenly curious: What types ...

There’s been a new interest in diseases and viruses lately thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, with people being a little more wary of germs than they were before 2020. Now, the World Health Organization ...