In a landmark study published in the journal Nature, researchers have achieved the unthinkable: a potential cure for this rare but deadly skin disease. The breakthrough came from an international ...

Smallpox is caused by the variola virus, which spreads through skin-to-skin contact or contact ... That same year the deadly disease killed more than 5,500 people in the United States.

Mosquitoes, though small, are among the deadliest creatures in the world due to their ability to transmit various diseases ... joint and muscle pain, skin rash, and a drastic drop in platelet ...

The bacterium that causes anthrax, a source of potentially lethal skin ... And it monitors other diseases, such as Rift Valley fever, a viral infection that can be deadly to livestock and humans.

When she lands on human skin, she sucks up blood through her needle ... or "bad air," the name reflects the historical belief that the disease is caused by miasmas, or noxious exhalations from ...

A "rosy" is the initial reddish skin spot. "Pocketful of posies" refers to the sweet flowers that victims carried inconspicuously to cover the stench of their disease. "Ashes, ashes" indicates ...

Disease X is likely to be as fast-spreading as the COVID-19 and as deadly as the Ebola virus, according to scientists. Read on to know more about it. Scientists say the vanishing permafrost in the ...