Dallas County is experiencing the worst outbreak of West Nile virus in the county's history. The old record of 104 cases was set in 2006. Dallas County surpassed that number Wednesday, with 109 ...

In 1975, an outbreak of the mosquito-borne St. Louis encephalitis spread through 29 states, killing 95 people and infecting almost 2,000 others. The following year, infection rates were down, and they ...

Microbiologist Maria Strohecker preparing samples containing mosquitos collected in the field for testing at the DEP state labs in Harrisburg, where they test mosquito samples for West Nile Virus. ( ...

Recent outbreak is the largest in the U.S., and its on track to be the deadliest DALLAS, Sept. 17, 2012— -- Brandt Leondar is learning to walk again. A single mosquito bite infected with West ...

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

Researchers have uncovered the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia in an ancient Egyptian mummy, suggesting that the deadly disease was present in North Africa thousands of years ...

With its publication of the sixth and final volume of Taqweem el-Nil, or "History written by the Nile," by Amin Sami Pasha, the state-run General Authority for Cultural Palaces has played an important ...