Earlier this week, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finally unequivocally confirmed that the Zika virus causes microcephaly in infants – confirming what most scientists had long ...

West Nile virus is the most common mosquito-borne disease in the US. The virus is spread by mosquitoes during the summer and fall. About 1 in 5 people infected with the virus have symptoms, such as ...

Cases of norovirus are rising across the United States, doubling over the last few months, according to updated data from the ...

Two additional cases of West Nile virus have been confirmed in humans in Massachusetts, as public health officials raise the risk level in 9 more cities and town. So far this summer, there have been ...

Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United ...

New cases of West Nile virus and Eastern equine encephalitis have been detected in Massachusetts, officials said Thursday. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health said in a release Thursday that ...

Despite the surge of travelers across the county during Thanksgiving, there was a decline in the number of states with "very high" levels of the COVID-19 virus in their wastewater. U.S. Centers for ...

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As many Americans drive home for Christmas, COVID-19 levels are high or very high in 20 U.S. states, according to recent wastewater analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

With Christmas just around the corner, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed the states with the highest COVID-19 levels in their wastewater. The CDC began tracking ...