infections

A friend of mine is celebrating a health victory of sorts—several glorious infection-free months. Julie contracted leptospirosis—caused by the bacterium Leptospira—while cleaning her backyard bird bath. She’s struggled with persistent ...

Childhood chronic illness, mental health conditions, and behavioral disorders have been on the rise in recent decades. Is ...

Parasitic infections are much more common than you likely realize.

Officials in China’s central province of Henan have said that the COVID-19 infection rate in the region was ...

As Chinese authorities continue to downplay the death toll from the country's ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, health care workers ...

Several Chinese government organizations, including police stations, pandemic control centers, and judicial offices, are closed down temporarily amid ...

China’s National Health Commission (NHC) will no longer publish daily COVID-19 cases or death numbers after leaked data ...

Long-held beliefs that a second COVID-19 infection is less likely to be more severe than the first are ...

Americans are set to face a triple threat of infectious diseases as the cold weather season advances. According ...

Uganda has reported nine more Ebola cases in the capital Kampala, bringing the total number of known infections ...

PARIS—About 1700 people had been infected with monkeypox in France, Health Minister Francois Braun said on Monday. Braun ...

Hong Kong reported 986 new coronavirus infections on Thursday as authorities scramble to contain an outbreak which medical ...

MADRID—Spain will end a mandate to wear masks outdoors next week, reversing a late December order. After confirming ...

TOKYO—Toyota Motor Corp. will halt more production in Japan this month because COVID-19 infections among autoworkers had slowed ...

BEIJING—A jump in the number of people in China infected with bird flu this year is raising concern ...

Infections following monsoon rains have led to a fever outbreak in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state which has ...

SANTA ANA—Hospitalizations for COVID-19 increased again in Orange County as the Delta variant continues to fuel a resurgence ...

MOSCOW—Moscow's mayor on Saturday ordered a week off for some workplaces and imposed restrictions on many businesses to ...

NEW DELHI—India's new coronavirus cases dipped marginally on Sunday but deaths from COVID-19 jumped by a record 3,689, ...

More than 140 people in Houston have tested positive for COVID-19 more than two weeks after being fully ...

MUMBAI—India's biggest cities braced for stricter lockdowns and other COVID-19 curbs on Saturday as infections hit a six-month ...

PARIS—President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday ordered France into its third national lockdown and said schools would close for ...

AMSTERDAM—Coronavirus cases in the Netherlands jumped by around 7,400 in the past 24 hours, marking the biggest increase ...

BERLIN—German health minister Jens Spahn on Friday dampened hopes that further coronavirus restrictions will be lifted soon, saying ...

BERLIN—Coronavirus infections are rising exponentially in Germany, an expert at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases ...

The number of new daily COVID-19 infections fell below 100,000 for the first time this year, according to ...

SANTA ANA (CNS)—Orange County reported 1,448 new cases of COVID-19 and 47 additional deaths on Jan. 17, bringing ...