What Is a Staph Infection? A staph infection is caused by staphylococcus (or "staph") bacteria. Actually, about 25% of people normally carry staph in their nose, mouth, genitals, or anal area and ...

Bacteria live all around us, even in us. Though some bacterial pathogens can cause dangerous infections, many of those microbes are harmless. Sometimes, the same strain of bacteria can lead to very ...

Bug bites don’t cause staph infections on their own. However, when an insect or spider bites someone, it can create an avenue for bacteria to get into the body’s tissues. A friend’s son went to urgent ...

Scientists have finally found an answer to one of the great mysteries about the most deadly bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus why it attacks primarily humans and not animals. And they now have an idea ...

Lulu Baker had a small cut on her lip from chewing on her pacifier. Her parents Cade and Lilly kept an eye on it and rushed ...

Nearly 120,000 people contracted bloodstream staph infections in the United States in 2017, most of them in health care facilities – and nearly 20,000 died. Progress against the most dangerous ...

Staph infections remain a problem among infants, even the strains that are not resistant to drugs, a new study shows. The study cites estimates that around 5,000 babies will develop severe staph ...

Otherwise innocuous bacteria can cause deadly infections when people have surgery or fall ill. To prevent trouble, patients sometimes have their bodies scrubbed clean of Staphylococcus aureus. But it ...

For years, medical investigators have tried and failed to develop vaccines for a type of staph bacteria associated with the deadly superbug MRSA. But a new study shows how staph cells evade the body's ...

Ozzy Osbourne is recovering from a deadly staph infection that recently forced him to postpone several shows of his world tour—and he believes he got it just from shaking somebody’s hand. In a recent ...

The Browns have tried to make the building safe by keeping areas where the players dine, dress and meet clean, Crennel said, and by hiring a "sports coating" company to routinely examine the place.