Clark County Public Health officials are warning residents about a rise in whooping cough cases and chickenpox outbreaks ...

Fact: Mpox was first discovered in 1958, according to the CDC. Two outbreaks of the disease, which is caused by a virus in ...

Transmission of Oropouche virus to the womb has been confirmed in two stillbirths and one birth with congenital anomalies that occurred in Brazil.

"Very high" levels of the virus were detected by the CDC in New Mexico, with "high" levels in Oregon, Arkansas, and Maine.

Climate change and mosquitos are creating an epidemic of dengue in Oaxaca, as researchers work to counteract the disease.

The emergence of new viruses is often unpredictable, jumping as they might from infecting one species to another. A November ...

In 2023, a highly pathogenic bird flu leapt to seals in South America, killing some 17,000 elephant seal pups (about 97 ...

No FDA-approved rapid tests exist that specifically test for H5N1, and the first near-point-of-care test for mpox was ...

Cases of mpox in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be "plateauing," ...

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the UK, making it the first cluster of infections that have surfaced outside of Africa.

Congo reported fewer than 100 mpox cases last week, down from nearly 400 in July but infections have risen in Burundi and ...

A year after an outbreak of H5N1 killed thousands of elephant seals, only about a third of the seals normally expected here ...