Connecticut health officials are cautioning southeastern area state residents over the potentially deadly mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus after detecting virus-positive mosquitoes. According to the state health department, mosquitoes trapped in the Pachaug State Forest...
An ongoing salmonella outbreak from an unknown food source has spread to 29 states, federal health officials warned.   The outbreak has infected nearly 280 people and more than two dozen have been hospitalized, according to the Centers...
EBOLA hemorrhagic virus has been confirmed in Abidjan, capital of the Ivory Coast, for the first time in 25 years - with a World Health Organization (WHO) official describing the presence of the deadly disease...
The first case of the deadly Marburg virus has been found in West Africa, with experts threatening that it could “spread wide and far” and needs to be eradicated as soon as possible. The virus...
A veterinarian in China has become his nation's first fatality from a rare virus spread by monkeys. The 53-year-old man contracted the Monkey B virus after dissecting two dead monkeys in March and died in...
A virologist has recommended the government bring vaccinations “house to house” rather than rely on vaccination hubs to increase the number of vaccinated people in Italy. Virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, a professor at the State University of...
Tuesday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) discussed his bill sanctioning Chinese health officials for not cooperating in determining the origins of the COVID-19 virus. The Florida Republican lawmaker warned...
A virus even more transmissible and fatal than Covid-19 will lead the world into the next pandemic, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, noting the “evolutionary certainty” of such an occurrence. “Make...
New federal data show that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have reached an all-time high in the U.S. for the sixth consecutive year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just released its 2019 STD...
The disruption of the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in fewer urgent cancer referrals in England, meaning that cases could be caught too late and result in survival rates “going backwards”, according to a report. A study...