#Infection

Author: Daniel Hernandez / Source: L.A. TACO A spike in measles cases in California and a cluster of cases in Los Angeles County have prompted local officials to quarantine more than 900 people this week in an effort to contain a possible outbreak of the highly infectious disease. [Post updated

Author: Amber Dance / Source: Science News Frances Mercer runs a fight club. In one corner, the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis, which causes a widespread sexually transmitted infection that many people have never heard of. In the other corner are neutrophils, the immune system cells best

Source: Neatorama Ever experienced your computer being infected and your files getting deleted unexpectedly? I have and what a learning experience that was. When my computer got infected, I panicked. I didn’t know whether I would be able to get my files or restore my computer’s normal

Author: Jonathan Raymond; Nick Viviani / Source: wibw.com (Gray News) – A teenager in India died two weeks after showing up at an emergency room with seizures and groin pain, appearing confused and with swelling over his eye, in what turned out to be symptoms of a parasitic brain disease caused

Author: Erik Stokstad / Source: Science | AAAS The infectious disease that has devastated the most biodiversity is a fungal killer of amphibians, researchers report today in Science. Around the world, 90 species are thought to have gone extinct because of the fungus. And at least another 491