Public-health researcher James Baguma has studied the interactions between bats, which can carry the virus, and people in the ...

Health officials in Will County announced Friday that mosquito batches, which tested positive for West Nile Virus (WNV), were ...

Ebola is one of the world’s deadliest viruses, and Marburg is its cousin. This hemorrhagic virus shares many symptoms with Ebola, and there is no known cure or treatment. It spreads quickly and ...

A bat has tested positive for rabies in Bend, prompting Deschutes County Public Health officials to warn the community to ...

Scientists from Japan and Thailand have identified a new group of coronaviruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 in horseshoe ...

This outbreak is being called "the perfect storm." How did it start, what are the characteristics of the strain that's ...

Deadly hantavirus and ebola outbreaks have raised pandemic fears. Dr. Peter Hotez explains that the risk of zoonotic diseases ...

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is warning Illinoisans that warmer weather means increased potential for ...

The first known outbreak of Ebola occurred 50 years ago in towns in what was then Sudan and now part of South Sudan.

Global alarm has been building since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international ...