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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A brown bear wades in the water on July 18, 2012, at the Dog Salmon River on the Alaska Peninsula. A man who was hunting on the ...

Swimmers have been warned to give seals their distance amid fears of a “seal finger” infection if bitten by the aquatic mammals that are gathering in their hundreds around the UK coastline. The ...

Alaska health officials are alerting the public to the state's "first documented case" of a rare, potentially serious "seal finger" infection linked to brown bear exposure. In a bulletin released on ...

AEW star CJ Perry said she underwent surgery Monday to address an infection that originated in her finger. Last Saturday, she shared a photo of her visibly swollen and discolored middle finger and ...