"Keeping your dog from constantly irritating an infected area is important for fast healing because (licking) can cause more ...

Some microbes can be quite clingy. Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterial species responsible for staph infections, latches onto human skin with one of the strongest biological bonds ever recorded, ...

ATLANTA - People can get plenty of diseases from animals — bird flu, for one. Now there are signs dogs and cats can catch a dangerous superbug from people. At a large Philadelphia veterinary hospital, ...