A food truck in southern Italy recently became the centre of a deadly health scare. A food-borne outbreak linked to preserved vegetables killed two people and sent more than a dozen to hospital. At ...

Influenza is a highly contagious seasonal virus that can cause serious illness in children, but annual vaccination along with good hygiene offers the best protection against infection and ...

Bacteria from cooling towers at Harlem Hospital and a nearby site where the city's public health lab is located were sources ...

A bacteria that can cause necrotizing fasciitis — in which the infected flesh dies — keeps sickening people, especially in Florida and Louisiana. The Tallahassee Democrat, part of the USA TODAY ...

A total of five deaths and 20 cases of a flesh-eating bacteria have been reported so far in Florida this year, officials said. The latest figures from the Florida Department of Health show cases of ...

Just southwest of New Orleans, in a tranquil fishing village on the Louisiana bayou, Linard Lyons spent the morning on his 19-foot boat, preparing crab traps for his grandchildren just like he had ...

Gaza has recently seen a surge in Guillain-Barre syndrome, which can cause full-body paralysis in extreme cases.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A surge in infections from the rare and deadly flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus has claimed five lives in Florida this year, as cases have soared to 20 in just a ...

The code of life is simple. Four genetic letters arranged in triplets—called codons—encode amino acids. These are the building blocks of proteins, the machinery that powers life. But the genetic code ...

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Air conditioners have been working overtime this hot summer, from those tiny window units to the massive AC towers ...