Alarmed about the continued spread of the chikungunya virus, US health officials have issued more travel advisories, warning Americans to take caution when traveling. Last week, the CDC issued two new ...

Nipah virus is rare, deadly, and tightly monitored, but for travelers and the US public, awareness beats alarm. Nipah virus is back. It has not hit the US yet, but it has quietly reminded public ...

The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. There is no indication that ...

Unlike HIV or HBV, HCV replicates its genome directly into RNA without a DNA intermediate, so it lacks a latent, nuclear form that defies ready immunological clearance. In order for the virus to exist ...

Samples from a patient who recently developed the first severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. showed mutations that may make it easier for the virus to bind to cell receptors in the human upper ...

India is moving quickly to contain a Nipah virus outbreak in the eastern state of West Bengal after two cases were confirmed by the federal health ministry. Nearly 200 people have been quarantined ...

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (KABC) -- Warning signs are going up in Pioneer Park in Garden Grove where mosquitos have tested positive for West Nile virus. "Unfortunately because we weren't able to do the ...

Idaho State Department of Agriculture officials recommend that upcoming horse events in the state are cancelled and related movement of the animals stopped temporarily following confirmed reports of ...

ALBANY — The mpox virus, which was almost nonexistent last year after a summer 2022 outbreak, is showing signs of a return — particularly in New York City. As of March 23, New York City had 113 people ...