An abscess is a pus-filled bump or pocket that forms in or on your body due to an infection. Bacterial infections are the most common cause of abscesses, though an abscess can also form due to a viral ...

A teenage boy was left partially paralysed and unable to speak after an undetected sinus infection led to a potentially deadly pus-filled abscess in his brain. Distraught mum Joanna Thompson, a nurse, ...

THE number of children suffering from a potentially deadly brain infection has risen dramatically over the last few years. In the United States alone, there was a 200 per cent increase in cases of ...

A cob found in knee-deep in mud with an infected abscess on his face has been rescued by the Blue Cross. The emaciated three-year-old, who has been named Denny, was found abandoned in a “notorious fly ...

A single mother narrowly escaped death and spent five months in hospital after an abscess on her tooth led to a life-threatening infection on her brain. Rebecca Dalton, 35, suddenly saw her ...

A young mother died from a brain abscess six weeks after she was sent home with antibiotics by her doctor who told her she had a minor ear infection, an inquest heard. Zoe Adams, 28, complained of ...