In 1926 medical mystery, Dickinson watched five nuns fall one by one — and feared the cause could be contagious, criminal or ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Delve Bio, a pioneer in metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) for infectious diseases, today announced data presented at IDWeek 2025™ in Atlanta, Ga., by researchers ...

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In the early 20th century, a mysterious disease swept across the world, leaving millions unable to move, speak, or react—fully conscious but trapped in their bodies. Known as encephalitis lethargica, ...

Commonly found viruses such as the parvovirus B19 (PVB19) can cause serious brain infections like encephalitis, said researchers from the AIIMS Bhopal on Saturday. Parvovirus B19 is a common virus ...

A major UK clinical trial has shown that adding the corticosteroid dexamethasone to standard antiviral treatment for encephalitis (brain inflammation), caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV) does not ...

The findings mark the first documented detection of bat-origin orthoreovirus—a kind of double-stranded RNA virus—in human cases of acute respiratory illness and encephalitis in Bangladesh. The study ...

Penny Marshall’s minor classic Awakenings, a box office success with a trio of Oscar nominations, arrives on 4K Ultra HD with a solid restoration. The bonus features are scant and don’t include ...

Medical science has come a long way in the last hundred years, but that doesn't mean every medical mystery has been solved. The cause of the mysterious sleeping sickness that struck New York in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Roughly 30% of hospital admissions for encephalitis required repeat lumbar punctures. Diagnostic uncertainty is ...

A new study published in JCI Insight provides evidence that a little-studied virus called human pegivirus (HPgV) may be present in the brains of people with Parkinson’s disease and could be linked to ...

A terrifying illness that dominated the world for an entire decade is still leaving doctors perplexed. Half a million people lost their lives to the mysterious disease, which saw some patients undergo ...