Though it is commonly called the "winter vomiting disease," norovirus outbreaks are still cropping up around the country in ...
Infectious disease experts have sought to reassure people that the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak poses very low risks to the wider public.
More cases of the Oropouche virus disease, also known as sloth fever, are being reported in the United States this year among travelers returning from Cuba and Brazil. The viral disease, which is ...
Bundibugyo virus is an uncommon species of Ebola-causing virus that has been linked to only two other known outbreaks ...
Marburg virus disease has killed 11 people and sickened 25 others in Rwanda, which declared an outbreak on Sept. 27. Similar to Ebola, the rare but very severe illness can be fatal in up to 88% of ...
Here’s what you need to know, from why the cruise ship outbreak won’t spark the next pandemic to how hantavirus spreads.
Tick bite-related ER visits are at their highest seasonal levels since 2017 across most U.S. regions, raising concerns about ...
A groundbreaking new study out of Northwestern Medicine may offer new hope for the more than one million Americans living with Parkinson’s disease. Researchers have identified a possible trigger for ...
On May 15, 2026, the Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene and Social Welfare of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a new Ebola virus disease outbreak in Ituri Province, affecting three health ...
Primitive peoples believed that evil spirits carried diseases. Hebrews and Greeks proved that cleanliness protected them from many ailments. In the Middle Ages doctors ascribed to various invisible ...
Oropouche virus disease, sometimes called Oropouche fever or sloth fever, is an illness caused by the Oropouche virus that’s spread mostly by biting midges. Oropouche virus is found mostly in a few ...
Martin “Marty” Novar remembers flashes of his 65th birthday on Nov. 2, 2025. But he doesn’t remember anything else from that month. Memory is a tricky thing for Novar nowadays. When we made plans to ...