The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging traveling Americans to be on high alert for a deadly mosquito-borne virus after reporting an outbreak of chikungunya in Cuba this week.

State health officials are currently probing whether the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus that has triggered an aggressive COVID-esque response in China is now spreading in New York after a Long ...

Two more West Nile Virus cases have been confirmed in Massachusetts, bringing the total number of human cases for the year up to eight. The Massachsetts Department of Health confirmed a woman in her ...

The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department on Friday announced that a type of mpox virus had been detected in Pierce County wastewater sampling. Washington State Department of Health and the ...

The Herpes simplex virus is a widespread virus that often causes cold sores, and most people carry it. By removing a virulence gene, i.e. a gene that makes the virus harmful to humans, the herpes ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Cases of the West Nile Virus are surging nationwide and in Missouri. West Nile Virus is carried by mosquitoes and can cause serious, even fatal, illness in humans and animals ...

A possible locally-transmitted case of chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne illness linked to tropical regions, is being investigated by New York state health officials. A New York woman said she ...

Three people have died and 15 more have been hospitalized in Missouri after they contracted West Nile Virus, state health officials said. There have been 16 reported cases of West Nile virus in ...

HEMPSTEAD, Long Island (WABC) -- The New York State Health Department is investigating a possible case of the rare mosquito-borne virus, chikungunya. Officials say a 60-year-old woman from Hempstead, ...