The avian flu is normally hosted in birds and is primarily spread across flock through mucous, saliva or feces. The virus is not frequently transmitted from person-to-person, but can transfer from ...

A case of Chikungunya virus on Long Island was locally acquired, health officials say Heath officials confirmed the first locally acquired case of the painful mosquito-borne disease chikungunya, ...

Just 16 days into 2026, there was a report of the first hantavirus detection of the year in California. Whilst it is not ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mesa County’s late-summer measles outbreak started with three children who brought the virus back from an out-of-state trip, ultimately passing it on to ...

Chikungunya, which is endemic in parts of South America, Africa and Asia, may be the cause of a woman’s illness. By Joseph Goldstein Health officials said they were investigating whether the ...

Norovirus cases, often referred to as the "stomach bug," have nearly doubled since the beginning of fall and are rising just in time for Thanksgiving. Wastewater data maintained by WasteWaterSCAN, a ...

The reintroduction of the Spix’s macaw in Brazil’s Caatinga shrubland faces a health crisis: seven birds have tested positive for circovirus, a highly contagious, potentially fatal disease with no ...

'It's frightening as the death rate is high.' ...