Researchers and public health officials are pointing to sewage contamination in the food supply as one of the most plausible ...

Five pathogens—Listeria, Shigella, E. coli, Vibrio, Yersinia—are rising in the U.S. after the cyclospora outbreak.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crop production faces threats from plant pathogens. Traditional disease-resistance breeding relies heavily on natural plant resistance genes that encode immune receptors adapted to particular ...

Researchers showed that airplane wastewater from a shared US-UK transatlantic route could be collected and analyzed to detect ...

Another pandemic like COVID-19 is all but guaranteed, according to public health experts. Whether it happens next year or a decade from now, these massive public health emergencies naturally happen on ...

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 ...

China's health authorities said Thursday that the recent rise in COVID-19 infections has begun to ease, with transmission ...

Sharp injuries continue to expose healthcare workers and medical students to blood-borne pathogens. Read more about the ...