New Delhi: When someone has chickenpox, red spots appear on the body. Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. In this disease, red spots or rashes emerge all over the body. This ...

Dr. Leana Wen: Shingles, or herpes zoster, is a viral infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus. This is the same virus that causes chickenpox, and people who have had chickenpox still carry ...

Children can also catch chickenpox if exposed to an adult with shingles as the same virus (the varicella zoster virus) causes both illnesses. Shingles is due to a re-awakening of the person's 'own ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

In plants, the space between cells is a key battleground during infection. To avoid recognition in this space, a strain of ...

The majority have been raccoons but three feral cats have also tested positive for the virus. Before last summer, Nassau had not had a positive rabies case in a raccoon since 2016. On Monday ...

A Minnesota Department of Health epidemiologist shows samples of blacklegged, or deer, ticks that are known to carry Lyme and other diseases. While the knowledge of ticks being vectors for Lyme ...

Researchers have produced the most detailed image to date of a bacteriophage -- phage for short -- that has allowed them to see for the first time the structural makeup of the part of the phage that ...

This year, thousands more Brits will be vaccinated against a potentially deadly virus that causes flu-like symptoms and results in over 50,000 hospitalisations annually. The Department for Health ...

Measles is a highly contagious viral infection, the virus spreads through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes. It can have serious health consequences, especially for ...

Major poultry and dairy organizations back vaccine use to control the virus. The Trump administration is rolling out a new strategy to combat avian flu, moving away from mass culling of infected ...