A new highly contagious and severe strain of mpox is spreading after a major outbreak in central Africa. Although the new mpox strain has not reached the United States, health officials said they ...

U.S. health officials are warning travelers about a potentially deadly insect-borne virus known as sloth fever that has infected 21 U.S. residents returning from Cuba and thousands more in South ...

A mutation on the spike protein of the virus that causes COVID-19 could help it infect the brain by forcing it to use a cellular "back door." SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 ...

To protect peanut allergic students some schools have instituted “peanut-free zones”. Do they work? Are those kids safer?

Dianna Gunn built her first WordPress website in 2008. Since then, she's poured thousands of hours into understanding how websites and online businesses work. She's shared what she's learned on ...

News that Anthony Fauci, long-time former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is recovering from a bad bout of West Nile virus fever throws a spotlight on a disease ...

Update: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 27 August that more than 20 US travelers returning from Cuba have been identified as having Oropouche virus. Once confined to the ...

More than 8,000 cases of Oropouche virus have been reported this year as of August 1. Most have been in South America, but infections are also spreading in countries where it hasn’t been seen ...

Surging cases are partly caused by a new variant that is thought to be more lethal than the version of the virus behind the global mpox outbreak in 2022. But there are treatments that could help.

A fan of The Last of Us Part 2 notices an incredible detail that seems to foreshadow one of the game's most savage scenes.

A variant of the rustrela virus-- related to the wider-known rubella virus which causes a skin rash in humans -- called RusV was discovered in a female mountain lion in Douglas County, Colorado ...

There’s yet another mosquito-borne virus making the news. Travellers returning from Cuba have reported fevers, headaches, muscle aches and sometimes diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and a rash.