The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has scrapped a plan to offer help curbing measles in Texas schools after ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever heard of the virus, ...

In a powerful moment of national remembrance and literary pride, former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf joined government ...

A lawsuit by attorneys general has unfrozen some grant money temporarily, but medical research and services are expected to ...

PULLMAN, Wash. - Why bats can harbor viruses like hantavirus and coronavirus - pathogens that are highly dangerous to humans ...

There are cuts to pandemic preparedness, even though we are barely emerging from the Covid pandemic, and it was less than 10 years ago that we experienced the largest epidemic of Ebola.

Ebola has not been eradicated, however. This deadly virus, which causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and has a fatality rate of about 50%, is still at large and could thus still cause a ...

Hantavirus recently made news headlines as the cause of death for Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, but little ...

Virginia Tech researchers seek to understand the environmental factors that influence the distribution of hantavirus in rodent populations across the United States.

Virginia is one of three states that are hotspots for a deadly virus circulating in wildlife, and it can also be fatal in ...