Subclade K has become the dominant form of flu and is slightly different from the virus targeted by this year’s flu vaccine.

A little-known disease spread by insect bites has turned deadly, and health officials are sounding the alarm. More than 8,000 cases of Oropouche virus have been reported this year as of August 1. Most ...

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 ...

Update: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 27 August that more than 20 US travellers returning from Cuba have been identified as having Oropouche virus. Once confined to the Amazon ...

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Adenovirus is a common, contagious virus that typically causes cold or flu-like symptoms, but can also lead to illnesses like ...

On July 12, a new deadly Nipah virus infection was confirmed in a 52-year-old man in the Palakkad district of Kerala, marking the tenth instance of Nipah virus spillover (transmission of the pathogen ...

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 ...

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An uncommon tick-borne illness called Powassan virus is making headlines in New England right now because a newborn baby in Massachusetts is believed to have it. Here in Connecticut, the CDC says ...

Researchers in China have discovered a new tick-borne illness, Wetland virus. Research shows it has the potential to invade the brain. Right now, China is the only country with cases. That’s the main ...