Ebola virus behind massive outbreak in DRC could be mutating, officials say
Cases have passed 4,000 and health watchdog plans to go door to door to find patients in major response escalationThe virus causing a massive outbreak...
‘We expected it, but now it’s here’: on the frontline of Australia’s bird flu outbreak, people are distressed
As Australia prepares for the H5 bird flu to potentially rip through hundreds of species, residents of the Limestone Coast are already seeing the impa...
CDC reportedly expands US cyclosporiasis outbreak to 15 states
Six additional states caught up in investigation after Michigan reported first two US deaths linked to diseaseThe Centers for Disease Control and Prev...
Chipotle removes jalapeños amid US salmonella outbreak investigation
Restaurant chain pulls peppers ‘out of an abundance of caution’ as salmonella outbreak sickens 100 peopleChipotle said on Tuesday it had removed jala...
Two people have died amid US cyclosporiasis outbreak, Michigan officials say
US sees first fatalities due to intestinal illness, though both had significant underlying health conditionsTwo people have died from cyclosporiasis ...
RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak
Health secretary, longtime vaccination skeptic, spent years boosting misinformation about vaccines including MMRRobert F Kennedy Jr, the US health sec...
Is the cyclosporiasis outbreak slowing? Test-makers are hopeful
Data by one test-maker shows a positivity drop, but rate could be influenced by number of people taking testSign up for the Breaking News US newslette...
Ebola outbreak in DRC the fastest growing in the history of the virus
As the death toll rises to almost 1,500, and with a vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain potentially still months away, health workers face a battle ...
Ebola Outbreak Is Now the Second-Deadliest Ever, and in Record Time
The disease has killed more than 1,500 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in just over two months, causing deaths faster than officials have e...
20 Years After Its Own Outbreak, an Ugandan Town Beats Back Ebola
The Bundibugyo Ebola virus takes its name from this small town, where it was first discovered in 2007. Now, the species has returned to eastern Congo,...
US cyclosporiasis outbreak expands to nine states as CDC investigates over 7,400 cases
Over 11,500 people this summer are suspected to have been sickened by disease that can cause explosive diarrhea, CDC saysInvestigations into the large...
Confusing product recall adds to US cyclospora outbreak uncertainty
Explosive diarrhea infection spreads to 41 states with at least 72 sickened by new, as yet unknown source of parasiteConfusion abounds in the cyclospo...
Why health officials do not have a good handle on the current Ebola outbreak
To get slightly ahead of the virus, health officials need to quickly identify people at risk of infection, a practice known as contact tracing. That's...
Fifth person dies in New York City amid legionnaires’ disease outbreak
Outbreak has been traced to Upper East Side cooling towers, but Mamdani says source of exposure has been eliminatedA fifth person has died in New York...
RFK Jr says cyclospora outbreak is ‘under control’ after FDA recall reversal
Health secretary says source has been identified despite experts warning infections are likely to keep risingHealth secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said...
Fourth person dies in New York City legionnaires’ disease outbreak
US health officials say source of Upper East Side cluster has likely been eliminated after 76 people fell illAn outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in N...
