At some point, we all get infections - whether it's chickenpox or the flu. Infections are caused by bacteria, viruses and fungi that can be passed on in many ways, for example by air, contact or food. Here you'll find information to help.
Common complaints
- Bacterial vaginosis
- Cold
- Cold sores
- Conjunctivitis
- Cystitis
- Flu and flu jabs
- Influenza (flu)
- Inflammation of the outer ear
- Oral thrush
- Pneumonia
- Salmonella and food poisoning
- Summer bugging
- Thrush
- Urinary tract infection (UTI)
- Warts and verrucas
- Winter vomiting disease
Animal infections
- Bird flu (avian flu)
- Bird flu in the UK
- Foot-and-mouth
- Swine flu
- Variant CJD
Childhood
- Chickenpox
- Croup
- Measles
- Mumps
- German measles (rubella)
- Glandular fever
- Inflammation of the middle ear
- Meningitis
- Meningitis (cerebrospinal meningitis)
- Meningitis C: the facts
- MMR vaccination
- Respiratory syncytial virus (RS-virus)
- Scarlet fever
- Three-day fever (roseola infantum)
- Threadworm (pinworm)
- Whooping cough
Skin
- Athlete's foot
- Candida albicans
- Fungal nail infection
- Impetigo
- Molluscum contagiosum
- Pityriasis versicolor
- Ringworm
- Ringworm of the groin
- Ringworm of the scalp
- Scabies
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
STDs
- Chlamydia
- Genital herpes
- Genital warts
- Gonorrhoea
- HIV and AIDS
- Infection risk and oral sex
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Syphilis
- Tropical sexual transmitted infections
Tests, scans, exams
- Bacteria and viruses
- Blood tests
- Microscopy and culture
Travel medicine
- Amoebic dysentery
- Cholera
- Diphtheria
- Japanese encephalitis
- Lyme disease
- Malaria
- Rabies
- Travellers diarrhoea
- Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever
- Yellow fever
Other infections
- Anthrax
- Encephalitis
- Erysipelas
- Erythema infectiosum
- Hepatitis (liver inflammation)
- Hepatitis A (infectious liver inflammation type A)
- Hepatitis B (infectious liver inflammation type B)
- Hepatitis C (infectious liver inflammation type C)
- Mycoplasma pneumonia
- MRSA infection
- Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
- The return of health problems from the past
- Toxoplasmosis
- Tuberculosis
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