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Viral diseases

Warm scarf on nose

Keep your nose warm this winter — the cold virus loves cold noses

Science

What’s more irritating: discovering that your mother was right or getting a nasty winter cold? How about both at once?

Pittsburgh Penguins player Sidney Crosby has been diagnosed with the mumps.

A mumps outbreak benches some of the NHL’s top players

Sports
Fruit bats like the ones pictured here are often key vectors for diseases like Ebola, and disturbing their habitats may have made humans more vulnerable.

Here’s how cutting down West African trees made us vulnerable to Ebola

Environment
Health workers attend a protest on October 7, 2014, outside Madrid's La Paz Hospital calling for Spain's health minister, Ana Mato, to resign after a Spanish nurse contracted Ebola.

At the hospital where a Spanish nurse got Ebola, workers say their training was poor

Health

Cancer’s New Battleground: Infectious diseases a leading cancer cause

Health & Medicine
A young Burkitt's lymphoma patient.

Part IV: The Infectious Connection

Health & Medicine

Cancer can be triggered by infectious diseases, especially in impoverished parts of the world. Scientists in the US and Africa are working to unravel how viruses and bacteria cause malignancies.