Infectious Diseases - October 2017 Archives

The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new data showing that health care providers diagnosed more than 2 million people with syphilis, gonorrhea ...

An estimated 20 million new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) occur in the U.S. each year, according to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. You may ...

Classrooms are not only great settings for learning, they’re also the right environment for the spread of infections among students. Walking pneumonia is one ...

Cold remedies are almost as common as the common cold, but are they effective? Nothing can cure a cold, but there are some remedies that ...

The possibility of listeria contamination in certain packaged vegetables has led to a voluntary recall in the U.S. and Canada. The California vegetable supplier, Mann Packing, ...

Have you had your flu shot? The time is now, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  "The most important way that we ...

American health experts predict a particularly active and severe flu season, which means  it's especially important to get a flu shot this year. https://youtu.be/Klq3TOfvLyQ ...

Walking pneumonia is an informal term for a mild form of pneumonia. It's most common in school-aged children and young adults, though people of all ...

Six out of 10 U.S. parents are choosing to get the HPV vaccine for their children, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease ...

Sexually transmitted infections (STI) have increased in the U.S. for the third year in a row, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control ...