Disease

The Archdiocese of St. Louis is encouraging clergy members and congregants to consider changing certain religious practices to avoid spreading the novel…

A relatively rare virus strain that can cause respiratory problems in children has been confirmed in St. Louis. It has sent dozens to pediatric intensive…

Saint Louis County is seeing an unusual spike in a bacterial disease that affects children in daycare centers.The county has received 71 reports of…

Fifth Brief: For the Sake of AllFor the Sake of All, the interdisciplinary research team studying the overarching effects of African American health on…

Just as with most things in life, when it comes to researching diseases, there is strength in numbers. Most funding goes to researching well-known and…

Soil bacteria may be helping to make disease-causing bacteria resistant to antibiotics.That’s according to a new study out of Washington University.Lead…

Washington University officials on the lookout for bacterial meningitis Officials at Washington University are on the lookout for possible cases of…

Updated at 3:00 p.m. to clarify and expand description of white-nose syndrome.A disease that has killed millions of bats across the eastern U.S. has been…

Asking "what if?" is usually pretty benign, but when a new report asks the same question, the answers are about preparedness for disasters, diseases and…