A least 28 people from a northern Ontario First Nation that was largely evacuated after the failure of its water system have ...

Health tests at Kashechewan First Nation, which is already in a state of emergency due to water contamination, show a ...

The New World screwworm is getting dangerously close to the U.S., public health officials warn. If left untreated, a ...

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A rare but potentially deadly fungal infection known as histoplasmosis is sickening a cluster of people in Tennessee.

Cases of histoplasmosis are surging in Tennessee as officials race to find the source of the outbreak ...

A distinct set of microbes has been identified in people with obesity, which might help spot and treat the condition early – ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...