The recent deaths of a Hollywood couple and three California residents have brought attention to a rare rodent-borne virus ...

The mosquito-borne virus has infected more than 33,000 people ... Health officials linked the outbreak to rising mosquito numbers during the summer and low immunity levels in the island’s ...

Central Europe is grappling with an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among cattle, prompting border closures and the culling of thousands of animals. The highly contagious virus was first ...

Like the dengue and Zika viruses, Oropouche virus causes a febrile illness. There are recent indications that infections ...

California town reports third fatality related to rare virus linked to death of Gene Hackman’s wife No other details about the local cases were immediately available. In a Facebook post ...

FG Trade/Getty Images The growing measles outbreak ... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 712 confirmed cases of measles in 24 states: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado ...

The measles outbreak began in Gaines County in late January. It has now spread across 23 counties in Texas, plus the states of New Mexico and Oklahoma. Local health officials on Tuesday reported a ...

Virginia Tech researchers seek to understand the environmental factors that influence the distribution of hantavirus in rodent populations across the United States.

Kennedy has not been regularly briefed in person on the outbreak by his own infectious disease experts at the CDC at least through March 21, according to Kevin Griffis, a career staffer who worked ...

In the world of infectious diseases, hantavirus remains relatively obscure until outbreaks occur. This virus, although rare, has the potential to cause severe respiratory and kidney diseases.

Here are some takeaways from The Associated Press examination of funding for vaccination programs, how it exacerbates growing vaccine hesitancy and how that fuels outbreaks of infectious disease.