NEW YORK − Health officials are still finding cases in one of the city's largest Legionnaires' disease outbreaks in years as they continue monitoring Harlem cooling towers suspected of sickening more ...

When the COVID pandemic hit, many people turned to the eerily prescient film "Contagion" (2011) for answers—or at least for catharsis. Suddenly, its hypothetical plot felt all too real. Applauded for ...

How Our Cities Are Inviting Wildlife Viruses In As suburbs expand into forests, grasslands, and wetlands, the boundary between human and wildlife spaces becomes less distinct.

The New York City Health Department is investigating a Legionnaires' disease cluster in Central Harlem that has killed at least two people and sickened more than 50 others, the agency reported on Aug.

MISSOULA, Mont. — A biology professor at the University of Montana Western is leading a new research project aimed at uncovering how Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) may spread through Montana’s ...

For thousands of years, a disease repeatedly struck ancient Eurasia, quickly spreading far and wide. The bite of infected fleas that lived on rats passed on the plague in its most infamous form — the ...

Chagas disease, a potentially deadly condition caused by an infected triatomine insect or "kissing bug," may be becoming endemic in the United States, according to a new report published by the ...

How a disease outbreak affects a group of animals depends on the breakdown of ages in the population, research has shown. The findings could help scientists better understand how events such as ...

Trichomonosis, a disease spread by a parasite so old it may have infected the T. rex, is spreading among birds in Phoenix. The disease is most common in pigeons and doves. Hawks and owls pick it up ...

Here's how to spot the warning signs of avian flu, and prevent deadly contamination ...