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Reuters : After Ebola, two other tropical diseases pose new threats LONDON (Reuters) - A little-known bacterial disease may be killing ...

CAVALLINI JAMES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY BBC: Gonorrhoea 'could become untreatable' Gonorrhoea could become an untreatable dise...

Gonorrhea infects close to 700,000 Americans each year.  First Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Cases Detected In North America -- US Ne...

Maiden of the mountain: A 500-year-old frozen Incan mummy known as was suffering from a bacterial infection when she died - and being able t...

Scientists To Breed GM Mosquitoes To Stop Spread Of Dengue Fever -- The Telegraph Huge numbers of genetically modified mosquitoes are to be ...

Untreatable Gonorrhoea Spreading Around World: WHO -- Reuters (Reuters) - Drug-resistant strains of gonorrhoea have spread to countries acro...

Mysterious Nodding Disease Debilitates Children -- CNN Pader, Uganda (CNN) -- Pauline Oto still wears her faded yellow and green school dres...

Imported-Food Outbreaks Rise, CDC Says -- Wall Street Journal Outbreaks of illness linked to imported food have risen since the late 1990s, ...

The viral disease was eradicated over 30 years ago. BBC Smallpox-Destruction Deadline Delayed For 3 Years -- Wall Street Journal Global heal...

'Bizarre Bits' Exhibition Took a Strange Turn When Feds Arrived -- Wall Street Journal A 135-Year-Old Piece of Skin Launches a Small...

A microscopic view of the fungus, known as Cryptococcus gattii Edmond Byrnes / Joseph Heitman / Duke Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbi...

Tree Afflicted With Chestnut Blight Don't worry. Far as anyone knows, blight still isn't contagious for humans. J...

From Reuters: The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea risks becoming a drug-resistant "superbug" if doctors do not devise new w...

From Popular Mechanics: In director Breck Eisner's remake of George Romero's 1973 gem, The Crazies, in theaters today, a genetically...

Ebola virus. A small-molecule "broad spectrum" antiviral may be able to fight a host of viruses by attacking them through some fea...

Rickets, where children develop painful and deformed bow-legs and do not grow properly, is a condition linked with Victorian era poverty. Fr...

Health workers culling poultry at Shoilpur village near the Indian city of Kolkata. The H5N1 bird flu pandemic spread across the world in 20...

From The BBC: Disinfectants could effectively train bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics, research suggests. Scientists know bacteria...

From McClatchy: RALEIGH, N.C. _ As health departments battle the H1N1 flu virus, North Carolina health workers worry that another epidemic m...

From Slate: Researchers hope to create a better way to diagnose swine flu and other ailments. Crude methods of detecting swine flu have so f...