Mycoplasma phocimorsus is a zoonotic pathogen, often transmitted from seals, that is resistant to common antibiotics and can ...

The 29-year-old hunter got the disease after skinning a brown bear off the Alaskan Peninsula, but it took doctors weeks to diagnose it ...

Getty Image This is a medical first. Alaskan officials are ringing the warning bells after a man developed an infection from ...

Though it can cause extreme discoloration, there's a lot you can do treat it—and stop it from happening again.

It is only the second known case of a person contracting seal finger from an animal other than a seal, and the first ...

You feel it first as a slight tenderness around your fingertip. Maybe you dismiss it as a paper cut or kitchen mishap. But within hours, that mild discomfort transforms into throbbing pain that keeps ...