Infectious Diseases

The Basics of Polio and Why It’s Making a Comeback

Marla Broadfoot, Ph.D.

December 15, 2022

When a healthy 20-year-old in Rockland County, New York, presented in an emergency room earlier this year with sudden leg paralysis, the diagnosis of polio[...]

Infectious Diseases A-Z: How to tell if your child should stay home or go to school

Deb Balzer

December 17, 2018

Mayo Clinic Minute: The facts about 3 flu vaccine myths

Ian Roth

December 11, 2018

Infectious Diseases A-Z: Respiratory syncytial virus infection can lead to bronchiolitis in infants

Deb Balzer

December 10, 2018

Mayo Clinic Q and A: Understanding sepsis and septic shock

Liza Torborg

December 7, 2018

Goldilocks Ebola Vaccine is Just Right in Animal Trials

Mayo Clinic Staff

December 4, 2018

Infectious Diseases A-Z: Keeping perspective on acute flaccid myelitis

Deb Balzer

December 3, 2018

Mayo Clinic Minute: Is your child’s sore throat actually strep throat?

Deb Balzer

December 3, 2018

Infectious Diseases A-Z: Complications from the flu can be fatal

Deb Balzer

November 26, 2018

CDC issues food safety alert for romaine lettuce

Dana Sparks

November 21, 2018

Infectious Diseases A-Z: Prevent salmonella infection during Thanksgiving

Deb Balzer

November 19, 2018

#MayoClinicRadio podcast: 11/17/18

Jennifer O'Hara

November 19, 2018

Mayo Clinic Radio: Flu season

Jennifer O'Hara

November 15, 2018

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