Dana Mirman shares the story of how she ignored a bug bite on her shoulder and went into septic shock and nearly died, in a ...

Spider and other insect bites can cause pus blisters, but so can a potentially serious infection known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). While bites and infections can be confused ...

"These crippled parasites are administered through a mosquito bite and reach the human liver as usual," says vaccinologist ...

Though Texans are about to flip the calendar to December, mosquitoes are still buzzing outside. Because of that, a virus ...

Must be a bug bite, I told myself ... know that sepsis was my immune system’s out-of-control response to a skin infection that started on my shoulder and now was raging in my body.

They exposed participants to bites from 50 mosquitoes; 10 participants received bites from mosquitoes infected with GA1 parasites, and 10 were bitten by those with GA2 parasites. Three weeks later ...

A Southampton woman was able to receive treatment for an infected insect bite at her local pharmacy thanks to a new scheme. Viv O’Connor noticed her bite had become red and inflamed, so visited her ...

Qamrunnahar Sultana, a doctor at a private hospital, fell ill with a fever and mild muscle pain in the last week of October.

A Southampton woman was able to receive treatment for an infected insect bite at her local pharmacy thanks to a new scheme. Viv O’Connor noticed her bite had become red and inflamed, so visited ...

The UK has seen a 71% surge in cases of a potentially deadly infection brought back by holidaymakers over the past year, ...