Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

For chronic pain patients, though, the brain interprets even neutral sensations as pain and suffering. In effect, pain ...

This year is the worst for measles spread in the U.S. since 1991. The news comes as Missouri has become the 18th state with ...

An outbreak of legionnaires' disease, a serious respiratory illness, in London, Ont., has killed one person and made more than 35 people sick. Health officials do not know where the outbreak started ...

In April of that year, patients started appearing at hospitals in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, now known as ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

It likely jumped from animals to humans, the experts said in their final report Friday. However, a critical component of the investigation was missing: Despite repeated requests, the group was not ...

CDC nominee Susan Monarez says she values vaccines and rigorous scientific evidence but has largely sidestepped questions about widespread cuts to the agency and whether she disagreed with any ...

A new 'mysterious' respiratory virus in China since the advent of the year 2020 has led to fear among people worldwide as the disease is still not contained.

Researchers solve the mystery of a disease outbreak through long-term surveillance of wildlife in Africa.

In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?

Malaria is one of several suspected culprits of this outbreak, as it was revealed as the cause of another mystery disease outbreak in the DRC at the end of 2024.