Pythium insidiosum is an aquatic oomycete responsible for pythiosis, a disease affecting humans and a variety of animals. This pathogen, although fungus‐like in its presentation, exhibits distinct ...

A 14-year-old Texas girl was finally cured of an oft-fatal emerging disease when doctors amputed her lower leg, where the infection arose, after various antimicrobials proved ineffective. The culprit ...

MELBOURNE – Darwin has been, and is being, evolved. For the past five months, Efram Goldberg brought Darwin, his white German shepherd puppy, for daily dips into a campus pond at Florida Institute of ...

'Connie the Container Dog' won hearts all over after she was found by a couple of Coast Guard inspectors in a shipping container in a Houston, Texas port. After Connie was rescued and treated by ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - It’s called Pythiosis. It’s a rare fungal infection caused by the aquatic mold Pythium Insidiosum. It can affect the skin or gastrointestinal tract of dogs, causing sores ...

My sweet patient Bolt is a curious young standard poodle with a zest for life. He loves to play near the lake and chews on everything he can. He has miraculously survived one of the most fatal ...