Brits ready for a sunshine getaway could be at risk from a host of nasty viruses carried by mosquitos that can cause swelling ...

Authorities are sounding the alarm about a rare, but potentially deadly tick-borne disease as tick season ramps up across the U.S. Powassan virus is an extremely rare but serious illness spread ...

For much of human history, infectious diseases shaped entire generations - causing widespread death, disability, and fear. Today, however, many of these once-devastating illnesses are rarely seen, ...

Florida's coral reef has been beset by warming seas and rampaging disease. Now, one study has found coral resistant to one of ...

The same prions responsible for mad cow disease and other deadly brain disorders could contain fragments that can treat drug-resistant bacteria, new research suggests.

Snakes are facing extinction due to deadly diseases, warns new research. Rattlesnakes are among the most vulnerable species threatened around the world, say scientists. Infections, often caused by ...

Soon after Philadelphia hosted America’s bicentennial celebrations in late July 1976, more than 200 attendees of the American Legion Convention at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia fell ill ...

A decade-long study out of Cairns Hospital into a deadly disease that occurs in Far North Queensland more than any other part ...

Officials are warning about a deadly combination of fungal, parasitic and bacterial infections that could push some snake species toward extinction. A new study from the University of Georgia found ...

Legionnaires' disease has infected 56 people in Manhattan, prompting cooling tower disinfection as experts urge awareness of ...

A Legionnaires' disease outbreak on Manhattan's Upper East Side has caused 23 confirmed cases and 17 hospitalizations linked ...

A parasitic tapeworm causing echinococcosis has been detected for the first time in West Coast wildlife, found in 37 of 100 coyotes near Puget Sound.