Over 16,000 people were infected with the potentially fatal disease last year as the parasite spread beyond rural areas.

P lenty of research shows that respiratory distress and heart attacks spike in the event of smoke exposure; acute impacts of ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

From a lone clinic in Texas to an entire school district in North Dakota, the virus is upending daily life and revealing a ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

George Washington confronted a smallpox epidemic with a belief in science—and a controversial plan. ... At the time, the disease caused by the variola virus killed as many as one in two victims.

The new COVID-19 variant, called Nimbus, has similar symptoms and recovery to the Omicron strain. It hasn't been detected in ...

The growing measles outbreak in the U.S. has reached 1,197 confirmed ... The CDC has issued an updated travel advisory for travelers as experts continue to urge vaccination against the disease.