According to the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 60% of emerging infectious diseases originate in animals, while ...

Modern air travel allows infected individuals to move across continents within hours. Diseases that may once have remained ...

Visitors planning trips to Costa Rica should keep viral illnesses in perspective: hantavirus deserves awareness, but dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases remain the more common concern for ...

The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were designed to study viruses that could jump from animals to ...

A hantavirus outbreak has captured global attention in recent days, leading many to wonder if they can contract the infection ...

A French passenger who was not on board the MV Hondius is being monitored as a close contact case after reportedly developing ...

Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to figure out if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus ...

Argentina is leading an international investigation into the origins of a deadly Hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius ...

As directly counting rat populations is extremely difficult, practical estimates usually rely on proxy indicators, including the number of public complaints, food safety contravention rates, sewage ...

What does it look like as a country falls apart, cut off from resources, assistance and humanitarian aid? It’s dark, for one–as the nation of Cuba rations what little fuel and renewable energy it can ...

A French passenger is being monitored by health officials after reportedly developing signs of the rat-borne illness ...