LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has reported another case of infection in a concentrated outbreak of a new strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year and spread into Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday. In a disease outbreak update issued from its Geneva headquarters, the WHO said the latest patient is an ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll from the H7N9 virus to 36 from 131 confirmed cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The United Nations health agency said the four deaths were from cases that had already been identified in laboratories. Since May ...

CARDIFF U. (UK) — Peptide molecules derived from the body’s natural immune system can help boost the body’s defense against life-threatening blood poisoning. In an article published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers report that peptide molecules derived from immune sensors known as Toll-like receptors or TLRs can kick-start the body’s natural immune defense that was affected by blood poisoning. “Blood ...

When her healthy baby girl arrived following a scary but successful emergency C-section, Katy Yates thought the worst was over. Days later, the new mom was back in the hospital and fighting for her life against a flesh-eating bacterial infection.    

(MedPage Today) -- Many children with no signs of respiratory infection tested positive for Mycoplasma pneumoniae, suggesting that such tests may be unreliable for clinical diagnosis, researchers said.