BALTIMORE, MD., November 6, 2025--Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD) reported encouraging results from an early phase ...

Dysentery and diphtheria were relentless killers in the Wild West, taking more lives than many of the era’s famous gunslingers. This video dives into how these diseases spread and why they were so ...

Life near the edge of Lake Turkana is a daily struggle for water. At dawn near the village of Moite, Achino Lobok and Elizabeth Atapar set off on their daily journey to fetch water—a task that defines ...

The state of Kerala is on high alert as another fatality due to amoebic encephalitis has been confirmed. A 59-year-old resident of Chavakkad, receiving treatment at Kozhikode Medical College, has ...

Sept 18 (Reuters) - An increase in cases of a rare but fatal form of encephalitis has put authorities in India's southern state of Kerala on alert, forcing them to step up testing to address what they ...

Amebic dysentery is sometimes deadly, sometimes so innocuous that a man may have it, and transmit it to others, without knowing it. In the Medical Record last fortnight, Manhattan’s Dr. Anthony ...

Pretty Virginia Loomis, 18, soft-voiced night club singer, was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, operated on for appendicitis. Eight days later she was dead of amebic dysentery. Broadway wailed its grief.

Despite a loss of hearing, she won three Grand Slam championships, including one at Wimbledon, in ascending to the International Tennis Hall of Fame. By Richard Sandomir Angela Mortimer, a British ...

A nine-year-old girl in Kerala has succumbed to amoebic encephalitis, a rare and deadly brain infection caused by free-living amoeba in contaminated water. Health officials confirmed her death after ...

For research papers The BMJ has fully open peer review. This means that accepted research papers published from early 2015 onwards usually have their prepublication history posted alongside them on ...