the bite of the hematophagous assassin bug, which causes the rare South American parasitic infection known as Chagas disease, could have been the reason behind Charles Darwin's illness?
the fruits of Matico (Piper aduncum) are used as a condiment, for flavoring cocoa, and its leaves are used as an antiseptic, to stop hemorrhage, and to treat infections?
the sailors of the Santa MarÃa shipwrecked in Haiti were infected by the first reported cases of tungiasis, a disease caused by burrowing fleas?
the Foothill Yellow-legged Frog secretes an anti-fungal protein from its skin to prevent infections by various fungi such as Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis?
sporotrichosis is a chronic fungal infection that commonly affects farmers?
chromoblastomycosis is a fungal skin infection that can be caught from a thorn or splinter?
mastoiditis is an infection that can result from untreated middle ear infections?
osteomyelitis, i.e. bone infection, is particularly common in the tibia, femur, humerus and vertebral bodies?
95% of adults have been infected by human herpesvirus 7, a virus that can cause influenza-like illness and seizures but normally causes no symptoms?