Lurking in the vast expanse of the ocean and buried deep in the Siberian permafrost, there are giants—not blue whales and ...

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 ...

A potentially deadly virus known as “sloth fever” has US officials on alert after Florida reported 20 travel-related cases, including nine last week. Oropouche virus is spread through the bites of ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two individuals in Germany who were transported from Hamburg Central Station to the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) on Wednesday for precautionary examinations have tested negative ...

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