Surviving measles doesn’t mean you’re in the clear. In 2025, the US saw a dramatic spike in cases, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting the highest levels of the highly ...

To understand what's really at stake when a child contracts measles, we spoke with Dr. Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, a trustee of ...

New research reveals that boosting innate immunity may prevent drug-resistant bacterial infections and flu, reducing reliance on antibiotics and antivirals.

When running a fever during infection, we often feel chills, which prompt us to take action to warm ourselves, such as ...

For centuries, the nature of a fever — and whether it's good or bad — has been hotly contested. In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates thought that fever had useful qualities, and could cook an ...

Proteins responsible for controlling levels of iron in the body also play an important role in combatting infection, according to a study published today in Cell Host & Microbe. Humans - along with ...