This highly contagious infection is most common in babies and young children between three months and three years old. It's ...

How can I tell if my preschooler has diarrhea? It depends on what's normal for your child. Some children have a couple of ...

E. coli: Symptoms typically start three to four days after consuming contaminated food or water. The Shiga toxin-producing form of E. coli, the strain identified in the McDonald’s outbreak, causes ...

Maybe you're out in the wild and trying to identify some scat on the trail, or you're the new owner of a pet snake. Maybe you ...

Johne’s disease, pronounced Yo-knees, is a chronic disease of severe, watery diarrhea and weight loss in adult cattle caused by a bacterium. These bacteria are very hardy due to a ...

Introduction The Bristol Stool Form Scale (BSS) which consists of 7 photographs of different stool forms allows assessment of stool consistency (scale 1 for hard lumps to scale 7 for watery stools), ...

Studies on the rotavirus vaccine show it can prevent around 74% of infections and even prevent severe infections and ...

It causes acute watery diarrhea, (watery stool), and if left untreated can lead to death within hours. Other symptoms may include, vomiting and abdominal cramps. “In collaboration with its ...

An outbreak of infections linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has a lot of people across the United States concerned about ...

Despite improvements in surveillance and technology, foodborne outbreaks can still be difficult to catch quickly.

Several years ago, I was giving a talk at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ conference in Boston. My talk was primarily an overview of where ...

The E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers has now sickened 75 people, an increase of 26 since the ...