Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the ...

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A tick capable of making its victims allergic to meat and dairy (among other items) and spreading a virus that has no known cure may be reaching new areas, data shows.

Jason Collins, a longtime NBA center who became the first openly gay male to play in any of America’s four leading ...

An outbreak of an Ebola virus in central Africa has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the ...

The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency after about 80 people died from the virus in the Democratic ...

Written with great sensitivity to the “considerable psychological burden that unimaginable loss and the constant threat of ...

Canadian officials have reported that one of four Canadians returning from a cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak has a “presumptive positive” test result.

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“I’ve been healthy my entire life," Dallas Thompson said, adding, "I hardly got sick” ...

Three passengers died after traveling on the ship, and several others fell ill or tested positive. By Amelia Nierenberg Claire Moses and Jin Yu Young Health officials are closely monitoring the ...