Franciscan Health added more visitor restrictions at its hospital in Crown Point at a time when hospitals nationwide are ...

A nasty stomach bug has been spreading across the country, including California, in recent months — leaving people feeling nauseous, achy or worse.

News reports and social media posts are warning of a new outbreak of a little-known virus called human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China, but officials are yet to confirm this. Instead, official reports ...

There's been a dramatic increase in gastrointestinal illnesses aboard cruise ships in recent weeks—and norovirus is to blame ...

Since then, I think it’s fair to say that most people have been nervous about the emergence of the next big infectious disease – be that a virus ... are more likely than others to cause swift ...

Without effective antibiotics, the disease proves fatal in 30-90 per cent of cases. While the bubonic plague is most famously associated with the devastating 14th Century outbreak in Europe ...

we want to make sure people are aware of this increase in norovirus outbreaks and taking steps to prevent spreading illness to family or friends,” said Jessica Hancock-Allen, infectious disease ...

(Bloomberg) -- New Zealand officials say they have contained an outbreak of bird flu to a single ... end of the full incubation period for the disease, the Ministry for Primary Industries said ...

This discovery not only solves a centuries-old mystery but also highlights the importance of understanding infectious diseases, both their history and their present. Syphilis is a sexually ...

Actor Art Evans, best known for his role as Leslie Barnes in Die Hard 2, has died. Evans “passed away peacefully” while “surrounded by family” on Saturday, Dec. 21, his publicist Erica Huntzinger ...