The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced Thursday that it had five preliminary positive cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, in Suffolk County.

The new information pushes the presence of the bacterium Treponema pallidum back at least 3,000 years from what was ...

A pilot study has found evidence of Bartonella and Babesia infection in almost half of 50 blood samples from patients ...

Experts reconstructed the genome of Treponema pallidum from 5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia, revealing an unknown ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

When Dr William Foege died earlier this month, the world mourned the loss of a scientist who helped rid humanity of a virus that had plagued the Earth for thousands of years.

The Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance (TGS) program began in 2021 and is a voluntary way for international travelers to ...

You know that deadly viruses can wreak havoc on humans and animals—but did you know that some viruses can actually infect ...

Dozens of migrating birds were found dead or dying at an Amarillo playa lake over the weekend. Avian influenza is suspected.

Two emerging pathogens with animal origins—influenza D virus and canine coronavirus—have so far been quietly flying under the ...

Pneumocystis is an unwieldy genus of fungal pathogens that cause severe pneumonia, particularly in immunocompromised people like those with HIV/AIDs or who have received organ transplants. However, ...

A lethal virus that can inflame and damage the brain has re-emerged in India, reviving fears that a pathogen with a very high ...