Lurking in the vast expanse of the ocean and buried deep in the Siberian permafrost, there are giants—not blue whales and ...

The most significant illness circulating right now is influenza, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health and ...

Cases of "sloth virus" have been reported in the U.S. and Europe for the first time. But what is it? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

They came for blood — and left behind something worse. Thousands of people in China have been infected with a painful mosquito-borne virus, triggering the country’s most aggressive public health ...

When it comes to vaccines, everyone seems to have a firm opinion. Most of the skepticism around vaccines is derived, in part, because of myths about vaccines you should stop believing, such as the ...

A rare and deadly mosquito-borne disease has been popping up again this summer: eastern equine encephalitis, a viral illness that causes brain swelling in severe cases and has claimed at least one ...

Oropouche virus disease, sometimes called Oropouche fever or sloth fever, is an illness caused by the Oropouche virus that’s spread mostly by biting midges. Oropouche virus is found mostly in a few ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Herpes can cause cold sores and fever ...

Earlier this month, the Trump administration said it was terminating $500 million in mRNA vaccine research and shifting its focus to other approaches, including a previously announced “whole-virus” ...