Epidemiologist Elizabeth Schiffman, who supervises the Vectorborne Diseases Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health, ...

Once considered obscure or opportunistic, invasive fungal infections are now surfacing with alarming frequency - and in ...

Affected populations: Hantavirus disease is a rare but potentially deadly respiratory illness that is caused by a family of ...

Three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have been reported in Hood River County, Oregon, including two deaths. The CDC and ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) has developed an innovative gene-therapy strategy ...

The rare and deadly disorder is caused by infectious proteins ... According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 500 to 600 new cases occur in the U.S. each year.

In January, the Nevada teen was at cheerleading practice when she unexpectedly called home, Martin said. “She kept saying, ‘I ...

Developing drugs to treat rare diseases is both a noble cause and a risky business. Rare diseases are typically deadly, debilitating, and devastating for patients and their families, so developing ...

A CNIC team has designed a gene-therapy strategy that could transform the treatment of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy type 5 (ARVC5), a rare and deadly heritable disease that ...