A 4-year-old California girl is fighting for her life in a pediatric intensive care unit after ingesting a button battery.

Infection with Japanese encephalitis virus, a mosquito-borne flavivirus, was identified in a patient who received a liver transplant from a donor who resided in California.

BA.3.2, a new COVID-19 variant, has been detected in wastewater samples from 25 states. The variant has mutations that could evade immunity from a previous infection or vaccination.

One more person has died from the flu. The South Dakota Department of Health reported 1 new death, 15 new hospitalizations, ...

A mutated strain of the COVID-19 virus, first detected in the U.S. in a traveler to SFO, is increasingly appearing across the ...

Healthbeat reports that spring break travel raises concerns about measles spread in the U.S., with over 1,300 cases already ...

The first year of P.E.I.’s expanded RSV program has been a success, with hospitalizations for the virus dropping by nearly ...

A code enforcement officer investigating an odd smell found vials and labels for diseases at a California warehouse. She ...

Michael Bishop, who has died aged 90, shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold Varmus for proving ...

A new Covid variant is spreading across the U.S. and it may be able to. The variant, known as BA.3.2, has been detected in ...