Sheryl Wood

A tiny louse is responsible for decimating the citrus industry. Diaphorina citri, the louse in question, better known as the ...

Where in the world did it come from? All of a sudden, one day, someone had an infection with flesh-eating bacteria. It captur ...

Sleep lets our body processes rest and restores us for the next day, so a bad night's sleep can ruin the following twenty-fou ...

Kuru is called the shaking disease, its name derived from the Fore word for "to shake." Caused by an organism that infects th ...

In the summer of 1976, 4,000 American Legionnaires descended upon the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ...

Ah, wine. The bouquet fills your nose. The rich finish fills your mouth with soft flavors of oak and raspberries. The wine wa ...

It hasn't even been eight years since Candida auris was discovered—cultured and identified from the ear canal of a patient in ...

You know the signs—sneezing, fever, nagging cough, no energy, no appetite. It's the flu, but this time, it's your dog who's d ...

There are all kinds of theories—many supported by science—about what causes Alzheimer's disease. Tangles of protein called ß- ...

We all know you are what you eat—or so the expression goes—but it's good to remember that what you are (at least intestinally ...