Bacterial Illnesses
Bacterial infections are the ones antibiotics were made for — and the ones antibiotic resistance now threatens. Each page covers the illness, the organism behind it, and where natural approaches genuinely help versus where delaying antibiotics is dangerous.
- Strep Throat — Group A strep: the sore throat that actually needs antibiotics
- Whooping Cough — Pertussis: the 100-day cough, worst for young infants
- Tuberculosis — The slow lung infection that still kills over a million people a year
- Meningitis — Infection of the brain's lining; the stiff-neck emergency
- Sepsis — When the immune response itself becomes the killer
- Cellulitis — The spreading skin infection that needs watching, marked borders and all
- Necrotizing Fasciitis — The rare "flesh-eating" emergency and its warning signs
- C. difficile Colitis — The post-antibiotic gut infection, and the microbiome's revenge story
- Cholera — Pandemic watery diarrhea; rehydration is the cure
- Typhoid Fever — Salmonella typhi's slow fever, spread by food and water
- Legionnaires' Disease — The cooling-tower pneumonia
- Leptospirosis — The floodwater-and-rodent bacterium
- Brucellosis — Undulant fever from unpasteurized dairy and livestock
- Q Fever — Coxiella from farm animals; a cause of stubborn chronic fatigue
- Bartonellosis — The Bartonella infections beyond cat-scratch disease
- Cat-Scratch Disease — Swollen lymph nodes weeks after a kitten's scratch
- Bubonic Plague — Yersinia pestis today: rare, real, and treatable if caught
- Melioidosis — The tropical soil bacterium called "the great mimicker"
- Nocardiosis — A soil organism dangerous mainly to weakened immune systems
- Tetanus — Lockjaw from a wound; why the booster schedule exists
- Chlamydia — The most common bacterial STI, usually silent
- Gonorrhea — The STI racing toward antibiotic resistance
- Syphilis — "The great imitator," resurgent and still curable with penicillin
Connections
- Infections — The section hub with all sub-pages
- Diseases — The full conditions library, organized by medical specialty
- Bacteria Hub — All 36 bacterial pathogen profiles
- Parasites Hub — All 35 parasite profiles
- Infectious Disease Index — The A–Z illness listing
- Gut Health — The friendly side of the bacterial world
- Herbs — Including the antimicrobial and immune-supporting herbs
- Biology — All 137 interactive animations
- Lab Tests — The tests used to diagnose infection
- Health News — Including outbreak coverage