A man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, Australian health officials said.

If a person's stitches become infected, this can lead to severe infections. Learn more about the symptoms, treatments, and when to contact a doctor.

Chronic or recurring yeast infections can affect your daily life. Learn what causes them and what you can do to treat and prevent them.

Salivary infection, also called sialadenitis, most commonly affects the parotid salivary glands on the side of the face, near the ears or the submandibular salivary glands under the jaw. A salivary ...

The China-Hong Kong team has successfully inserted newly developed microrobots into animal sinuses during preclinical trials to treat bacterial infections.

Because the ear pinna is a uniquely mammalian structure and varies widely in its ability to regenerate across species, Weifeng Lin and colleagues argue that it makes an ideal model for studying ...

A spate of fishermen presenting to a small regional Queensland hospital in agony with gaping wounds sparked an investigation into the spread of a deadly infection.

A nurse in the dispensary of a clinic in Mhlosheni, Eswatini, which once had the world’s highest rate of H.I.V. infection. From January to April, nearly 5,000 people with H.I.V. failed to pick ...

Published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, a University of Minnesota research team has demonstrated that measuring SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater continues to accurately predict COVID-19 ...