A bacterial disease you’ve probably never heard of could be responsible for almost 90,000 deaths each year, a new analysis suggests. And though the bacterium was previously thought to reside mostly in ...

Federal agencies updated recalls and warnings to doctors Wednesday about aromatherapy sprays that have been linked to fatal cases of a rare tropical disease. The US Centers for Disease Control and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a statement warning of the rare disease melioidosis. On August 9 ...

The colonial morphology displayed by Gram-negative, Burkholderia pseudomallei bacteria, which were grown on a medium of sheep blood agar (SBA), for a 72 hour time period, at a temperature of 37°C. B.

Federal health officials are investigating three cases of melioidosis, also known as Whitmore’s disease, among two adults and one child in the U.S. — one of which was fatal ten days after the person ...

A person in Georgia has succumbed to a rare bacterial infection called melioidosis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Monday. But what exactly is it and who is at risk?

Federal agencies updated recalls and warnings to doctors Wednesday about aromatherapy sprays that have been linked to fatal cases of a rare tropical disease. The US Centers for Disease Control and ...

It’s unclear exactly where the infected people reside, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention health advisory released Wednesday said the Kansas, Texas and Minnesota health departments ...