Russia operated a top-secret biological weapons facility on a remote island in the Aral Sea. During a classified test, a deadly virus escaped beyond the exclusion zone. The incident was quietly ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that a patient in Bangladesh died after contracting the Nipah virus, adding that it believes the risk of the disease spreading internationally still ...

Just 10 human cases of Guinea worm were reported worldwide in 2025, the lowest number ever recorded, and a major step towards eradication. The Carter Center, a United States non-profit leading the ...

The internet has been abuzz with "Nipah virus" after two cases were recently identified in health care workers in India. Could this be our next COVID-19? The World Health Organization named it a ...

A new look at one of the most successful vaccination campaigns in history, which rapidly eradicated smallpox in Copenhagen in the early 1800s, has uncovered possible lessons for boosting vaccine ...

A virus that officials say “has a relatively high death rate” has led to COVID-style health checks at several airports in Asia. Five people in in West Bengal, India, have contracted the Nipah virus, ...

FILE - President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Freedom to Dr. William Foege, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who helped lead the effort to eradicate smallpox, ...

Dr. William H. Foege, an international public health giant credited as a visionary in the earliest days of Bill and Melinda Gates’ global health programs, and who developed the vaccination strategy ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Dr. William Foege, a leader of one of humanity's greatest public health victories — the global eradication of smallpox — has died. Foege died Saturday in Atlanta at the age of 89, ...

When the common cold rips through a household, it can leave a wildly uneven path of symptoms. The same cold-causing rhinovirus that produces barely a sniffle in one person can cause a week of ...

For his tireless work promoting the cause of children’s diseases, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being inducted into the Virus Hall of Fame today. The ceremony will feature light roadkill hors d’oeuvres, ...

As today is the first Monday of 2026, Americans across the country are settling back into their everyday routines after the busy holiday season. But many are also recovering from the flu—or still ...