A woman who is pregnant is the third Kentucky resident who has tested positive for Zika virus disease after traveling to an affected area where the virus is circulating, the Kentucky Department for Public...

In a follow-up report from Winnebago County, Ill, the shigellosis outbreak that began in Oct. 2015 has grown to 152 cases and according to Todd Kisner, Interim Director for Center of Health Protection...

A cow on a farm in Givron, Ardennes, in northern France has been confirmed positive for classical Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) earlier this week, according to a World Organisation for Animal...

The total number of Elizabethkingia cases reported to the  Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) since Nov. 2105 now stands at 59, according to a health department update Mar. 23. At least 17...

Every year, some 900,000 children are hospitalized and 100,000 die from rotavirus infection in India. This has prompted the Indian government to add the rotavirus vaccine to the Universal Immunization...

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Early in February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new interim guidance on preventing sexual transmission of Zika virus. Yesterday, federal health officials updated the guidance...

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The Southern Nevada Health District has received confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that a Clark County resident has tested positive for the Zika virus. The patient...

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California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Director and State Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith today announced the first confirmed case of Zika virus acquired in California. This case involves...

Scientists from the University of Oxford (UK) and the Evandro Chagas Institute (Brazil), along with collaborators from a number of other institutions, sequenced seven genomes of the Brazilian Zika virus...

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According to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), as of today, more than 121,000 people are on a waiting list for a life saving transplant. In addition, they say on average, 22 people die each...