Recognizing early body signals helps distinguish viral from bacterial infections and avoid unnecessary meds or doctor visits.

Among them the viral hypothesis is very strong because it has been shown that these viral infections could “trigger the pathological hallmarks of the dementia like amyloid plaque formation.” Some ...

Avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, is a viral infection that spreads in birds. There are many subtypes of avian flu. The most common subtypes that have spread to humans in the past have ...

ANTIBIOTICS are one of the miracles of modern medicine. The drugs have transformed the treatment of deadly bacterial ...

Viral infection is the invasion of the body by a small agent known as a virus. Viruses replicate inside host cells and can produce toxins that cause disease. The immune system helps to destroy ...

with a viral infection. This was not what researchers expected. SAN DIEGO — Black children/adolescents who came to the ED for acute respiratory symptoms and tested negative for a viral infection ...

Twenty-five burros died earlier this year at the Axtell wild horse facility in Sanpete County, Utah, not long after a roundup ...

If you or your child caught a bacterial infection, you’d expect antibiotics to work. That’s been the case for around a ...

aMcKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA bDepartment of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, ...

For example, a viral illness cannot be treated with antibiotics. However, if you have strep throat, it means you have a bacterial infection. In this case, you would need an antibiotic. There are ...

Over the years, it has been reported that Hsps play a dual role in viral infection. Some Hsps (Hsp27, Hsp40 and Hsp60) exhibit an antiviral effect by inhibiting viral replication through interaction ...

Scientists believe they know what causes the treated infection to mimic chronic illness: the body may be responding to remnants of the bacteria that causes Lyme that tend to pool in the liver and ...