Cynthia Wallentine

A recent study offers information that might help combat a deadly virus that affects an estimated 300,000 people each year in ...

How would you feel if the stethoscope used by your doctor to listen to your heart and lungs was teeming with potentially unfr ...

For as long as 14,000 years, the First Nations people of the Heitsuk Nation have made their home along the Central Coast of t ...

Crusty, itchy, red eyes? There is a decent chance you could have conjunctivitis, or pink eye, an infection of the thin lining ...

So cute, so furry, and so chock full of parasites. While raccoons are fun to watch, they are neither friendly nor clean — and ...

Regarding foodborne pathogens, eating fish is not as hazardous as it was a few years ago — but if fins are on the menu, it's ...

Love is the spice of life — it is also the microbes that couples share through sickness and in health, through the bathroom a ...

When you have an infection, a doctor prescribes antibiotics to make the bacteria that causes it disappear. Sounds like a good ...

A new study shows the Zika virus is present in saliva — but it may not be enough to make you sick.The Centers for Disease Con ...

An older man dies of Zika. A younger man who cares for him catches Zika — but doctors cannot pinpoint how the disease was tra ...