Disease prevention is a procedure through which individuals, particularly those with risk factors for a disease, are treated in order to prevent a disease from occurring. Treatment normally begins ...

Saliva-spread diseases can be due to multiple pathogens. Examples of viruses that can be spread through saliva include: Avoid kissing when you or your partner is sick and maintain good oral hygiene to ...

What’s alarming, according to the FAO report, is that banana growers “bore the brunt of substantial costs” to prevent the disease. This is on top of the rising cost of inputs, such as ...

Different types of antibodies are produced by your immune system. These five antibodies help fight disease by detecting viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens (disease-causing microorganisms) and ...

Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States ...

High blood pressure affects multiple organs. Not only can hypertension add stress to the heart and damage arteries, leading to heart disease, but it also can cause strokes and kidney disease as ...

Thus, after a series of pre-meetings in the summer of 2021 with over 60 experts with backgrounds in genomics, bioinformatics, antimicrobial resistance, molecular epidemiology, IPC, microbiology, ...

It's all connected: coronaviruses and other emerging infectious diseases, loss of biodiversity, and destruction of the environment by humans. Around the world, pathogens and parasites are ...

At an event organized by the World Banana Forum and the FAO on Fusarium Wilt in Asia: Lessons Learned and Current Innovations, a wide range of panelists from China, India, and Vietnam discussed the ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of intestinal disorders that cause prolonged inflammation of the digestive tract. It can include ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn’s disease.