Learn how to protect you and your family in the midst of a measles outbreak and find out if you need a measles vaccine.
Living With Lyme Disease: How to Promote Long-Term Healing
If you don’t notice the tiny deer tick bite on your body, it can be easy to dismiss signs of Lyme disease. You may suspect flu and give it a week or so, thinking it will resolve on its own. But by then, the bacterial infection has had time to spread. “The human body reacts … Read More
Cases of Legionnaires’ Disease, a Bacterial Lung Infection Spread by Water, are Growing
Legionnaires’ disease is a form of pneumonia caused by Legionella bacteria. Outbreaks are commonly associated with large-scale water systems in hotels, hospitals, long-term care facilities and cruise ships. It occurs most often in a certain set of at-risk people.
You Mean Adults Get Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, Too?
This infection gives kids tiny, telltale blisters on the mouth, hands and feet. But adults don’t always get blisters, and can pass the illness on without realizing it. Here’s what you should know.
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Understanding Tuberculosis: 6 Facts to Know
Tuberculosis is uncommon in the U.S., but it’s one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide. Here’s what you need to know about this infectious disease, how it’s spread and who’s at risk.
How You Can Protect Yourself Against Ticks — and Diseases They Carry
Headed outside sometime soon to soak up the sun and enjoy the outdoors? Tick-borne diseases such as Lyme disease, are on the rise in the United States, so it’s a good idea to protect yourself.
It’s the Season for Ticks: How You Can Protect Yourself
From May through July, people will get more tick bites and tick-borne diseases than any other time of year in the United States.
5 Things You Should Know About Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
Hand, foot and mouth disease is very common. It usually affects infants and children under the age of 10. Because hand, foot, and mouth disease is infectious, it can sometimes make adolescents and adults sick, too.
Common Bacterial or Fungal Infections Can Put Your Heart at Risk
Did you know that infections caused by common bacteria or fungus found in your mouth and elsewhere in your body can sometimes put your heart at risk? Learn more.
Zika and Travel: What Pregnant Women Need to Know
Recent cases of Zika virus are prompting the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to, for the first time, warn people about traveling to an area within the continental United States.
