Congo’s deadly Ebola outbreak is now the second largest in history, behind the devastating West Africa outbreak that killed thousands a few years ago, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
Read moreA trove of documents implicating junk food companies in disease and linking them to the tobacco industry unveiled at the University of California, San Francisco, on Thursday could drive new legislation and litigation limiting the availability of unhealthy foods, some experts say.
Read moreTying insect repellants to a decline in salamanders, a study out Wednesday reports that bug sprays are giving a counterintuitive boost to mosquito populations.
Read moreSandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, announced Tuesday that she has the beginning stages of dementia, “probably Alzheimer’s disease.”
Read moreHealth authorities say mosquito-borne viruses have killed four people in Romania this week, bringing the total deaths from West Nile virus to 21.
Read moreA cholera emergency has been declared in Zimbabwe’s capital after 20 people have died, the health minister said Tuesday.
Read moreResearchers announced Monday that they are enrolling human subjects for a new drug to treat malaria, which killed nearly half a million people, most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa, two years ago.
Read moreRomania’s president has blasted the government over the spread of African swine fever saying the outbreak was costing millions of euros and threatening thousands of jobs.
Read moreAuthorities have reported a robbery on a tiny Greek island once used as a leper colony.
Read moreCongo has approved the use of four more experimental treatments in the Ebola virus outbreak in its northeast, as health officials try to contain the spread amid the threat from armed groups in the region.
Read moreThe World Health Organization says the number of measles cases in Europe jumped sharply during the first six months of 2018 and at least 37 people have died.
Read moreDenmark is to erect a 43.4-mile fence along the German border to keep out wild boars, in the hope of preventing the spread of African swine fever, which can jeopardize the country’s valuable pork industry.
Read moreSome patients in desperate need of a kidney transplant participated in a bold experiment where they received organs infected with hepatitis C. The gamble paid off.
Read moreCitizen scientists helped track the intersection of location and habitat of ticks and the prevalence of certain kinds of tick-borne disease, including Lyme disease and others.
Read moreScientists offered promising results Monday in the use of aspirin to prevent the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
Read moreIt’s a marvel of ecology as shorebirds migrating from South America to the Arctic time a stop critical to their survival to this mass crab spawning. It’s also one of the world’s hot spots for bird flu — a bonanza for scientists seeking clues about how influenza evolves so they just might better protect people.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Monday heard a spat between the University of California and the University of Southern California over Alzheimer’s research data to decide whether the case belongs in federal or state court.
Read moreNew Zealand plans to slaughter about 150,000 cows as it tries to eradicate a strain of disease-causing bacteria from the national herd.
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