A historically wet winter and, now, hotter summer are leading to “pretty big” warning signs for West Nile virus in the Western US, public health and mosquito control experts say, suggesting that ...

Stuffy noses and bothersome coughs aren’t the only winter illness symptoms making the rounds right now. Lots of people are ...

With the world still on edge following the COVID-19 pandemic, news that a person has died in Alaska of the Alaskapox virus is understandably dredging up new worries. The virus, first discovered in ...

How to tell if you Have the West Nile Virus. Aug. 17, 2012— -- Dallas County, Texas, has been hit hard by West Nile, a potentially fatal mosquito-borne infection. This summer health officials ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Fears about polio are rising in New York after a case of the virus was found in an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County, the first person known to be infected with the virus in the ...

Samples from a patient who recently developed the first severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. showed mutations that may make it easier for the virus to bind to cell receptors in the human upper ...

The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. There is no indication that ...

A virus largely unknown outside scientific circles is spreading rapidly across parts of Latin America, drawing comparisons to Zika and dengue and prompting concern from epidemiologists. Known as the ...

It is considered extremely rare for Apple products to catch any sort of virus. That's no accident; it's entirely by design. With a Mac computer, for example, security is built-in. "To safely support ...

Idaho State Department of Agriculture officials recommend that upcoming horse events in the state are cancelled and related movement of the animals stopped temporarily following confirmed reports of ...