Avian influenza has recently been recorded spreading among minks and other mammals. The World Health Organization has now acknowledged that could be very bad.
The official tally of reported covid-19 deaths is a vast undercount of the pandemic's carnage, a new study finds.
The emerging viral disease has a new name, though both names will be used interchangeably for a year to avoid confusion, according to health officials.
The World Health Organization's current list of the worst germs features those responsible for Ebola, Zika, and covid-19.
As the planet warms, pathogens buried for millennia are more likely to re-enter the environment and potentially infect new species.
Tragedy struck a TikTok-famous farm when avian influenza swept through and killed nearly every bird.
New cases of monkeypox in the U.S. are slowing down, but the virus may circulate locally at low levels "indefinitely," the CDC says in a new report.
Covid-19 is likely to cause less death and misery moving forward, but it's far from a vanquished public health threat.
The CDC warned that cases of enterovirus D-68 have surged this summer, which will likely lead to a rise in cases of acute flaccid myelitis.
The victim was reportedly severely immunocompromised, and officials are still investigating whether monkeypox contributed to their death.
The vultures have been dying since early August, and represent similar bird deaths happening around the country.
It's the world's first documented case of co-infection with all three diseases.
This is believed to be the first report of a domestic animal with monkeypox, a virus that has infected over 30,000 people this year.
The results suggest that the debilitating and deadly virus, once made almost extinct, is now circulating among the city's population.
There have been over 6,000 U.S. cases of the illness reported this year, though no American has yet died from the virus.
Up to 1.6 million doses will be made available this year, though preference will be given to people at higher risk of exposure to the virus.
Anyone can spread or get monkeypox, but the majority of the current outbreak—28 cases in New York City—have been reported among men who have sex with men.
More than 2,500 cases of the emerging viral disease have been reported so far this year, along with one death.
Early evidence suggests that the virus hasn't changed to become more transmissible, though it may be spreading more often through sex than it has in the past.
More than 64,000 cases of monkeypox have been identified worldwide, the United States makes up for 24,000 of those cases.
