The launch of ‘At War with the Single Strand’, attended by numerous senior officials from the science and health ministries, ...

He is not alone. There has been a slow but steady uptick in COVID cases throughout the summer. It’s a time when people travel ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected — at ...

Two world heritage attractions in Spain's popular tourist region of Andalusia were on Thursday among sites affected by a bird ...

It's a confounding question on the lips of disease detectives: Why have the only deaths from the swine flu outbreak happened in Mexico? Investigators also want to know why the disease has killed young ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City health officials have discovered a seventh death linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem, where more than 100 people have been diagnosed with the ...

Legionnaire’s Explainer FILE - This 1978 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Legionella pneumophila bacteria which are responsible for ...

The death toll from Typhoon Kajiki rose to three in Vietnam on Tuesday, as rescue workers battled uprooted trees and downed power lines and widespread flooding brought chaos to the streets of the ...

MAIDUGURI (Reuters) -The death toll from an attack by gunmen on a mosque and nearby homes in Nigeria's northwest Katsina state has risen to at least 50, with around 60 others abducted, local officials ...