Every year, the United States faces microbial pathogen outbreaks caused by amoebas, bacteria, and other microorganisms. These outbreaks manifest in a variety of diseases, ranging from gastrointestinal distress to brain-eating amoebae. As mentioned in my previous article, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) gathers data on infections resulting in hospitalizations and provides access to this ...

Welcome to Strange Medicine – a series of nonfiction articles based on recent journal published, peer-reviewed case studies, review articles, meta-studies, scientific studies, and primary literature. Each relates to events that made the medical community’s eyes widen and scratch their heads, though, please note that all of these cases are significant toward scientific and medical ...