The disease affected millions, but to this day has not been satisfactorily explained. The symptoms were pretty distressing.

A mysterious, hard-to-grow gut bacterium keeps showing up in healthy people worldwide—and it may be quietly protecting our microbiomes.

In 2014 and 2015, NPR reported on a mysterious form of kidney disease that has killed tens of thousands in Central America, many of them in their 30s and 40s. Now there's a new theory about a possible ...

Ever looked in the mirror and wondered what incredible, and sometimes unsettling, secrets your own body might be holding?

In the early 20th century, a mysterious disease swept across the world, leaving millions unable to move, speak, or ...

(via SciShow) Between 1485 and 1551, England was hit by at least five epidemics of sweating sickness. But after that, the disease supposedly vanished off the face of the Earth. With fatality rates as ...

Bode said this in a statement following reports that 13 people died in the hospital as a result of HPV. Bode spoke in a statement in Lagos against the reported death of 13 people in the hospital as a ...

Fossilized bones in Brazil reveal that deadly infections plagued sauropods 80 million years ago. Researchers uncovered unhealed lesions consistent with osteomyelitis, pointing to pathogens spread ...

What’s behind the Mysterious Epidemic of Kidney Disease Killing Thousands of Young Men? As cases of chronic kidney disease emerge in outdoor laborers around the world, scientists are finding that ...

Like some other diseases addiction is caused by a combination of behavioral, environmental and biological factors. Nicotine alters the chemistry in the brain. People like the effect at first so begin ...

Cooling towers are large rooftop structures that are part of building cooling systems. These towers help disperse heat from the buildings into the air in the form of a vapor or mist. Although such ...