Epidemic

Two more cities in China are being placed on lockdown in an attempt by Chinese authorities to control the spread of…

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced this week that it has elected to declare the Ebola outbreak in the…

In Southeast Asia, the malaria parasite has been steadily building resistance to the drug that's used to treat it.…

Should scientists be allowed to create mutant viruses deadlier than natural ones? The White House waded into this…

Yesterday, the CDC confirmed the first Ebola case diagnosed in the US. The patient, who recently traveled to…

We've read the news reports and seen the photos. But none of it quite prepares you for the terror expressed by a…

If an extremely virulent infection started in Atlanta and spread thanks to folks traveling by plane, what path…

If you want to put on a surgical mask, rubber gloves, goggles, ear muffs and trap yourself in a plastic bubble after…

A total of eight people have now died following exposure to H7N9, a lethal new strain of bird flu that by last count…

The flu, as many are unfortunately aware, hit especially hard this year, and Google's Flu Trends map only confirmed…

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed tonight that a terrifying meningitis outbreak…

The United States is in the middle of its worst whooping cough (aka pertussis) outbreak in over half a century, but…

When humans travel, diseases travel with them. Events like the 2003 SARS outbreak and 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic have…

In Dunn County, North Dakota, the roads can kill you. In fact, anything you do to disturb rocks in the area, like…

We already have many of the medicines we need to kill pandemic diseases. But to stop a pandemic itself, we need…

Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, and now we know just where the disease it at its…

In 2009, swine flu created a minor pandemic, only killing about 15,000 people but infecting millions more. The avian…

Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, the non-lethal ape predecessor to HIV, might just be much older than current…

Though chronic fatigue syndrome is common, doctors still don't know what causes it. A study published today in Scien…

Feeling worried about the impending swine flu epidemic? Just to make you feel more panicked, we've put together a…