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October 24, 2015

US, South Korean health experts team up to contain North Korean pandemic risk

North Korea’s inflammatory rhetoric and atomic weapons testing aren't the only concerns for U.S. officials, as an even bigger threat than nuclear Armageddon may be lurking within the communist nation’s borders: The threat of deadly disease.

October 24, 2015

Hundreds of babies possibly exposed to TB at Texas hospital

More than 700 newborns and 40 employees of a Texas hospital may have been exposed to a worker who had an active case of the sometimes-deadly tuberculosis, health officials said on Friday.

October 24, 2015

Ebola case toll above 4,200, says WHO

A surge in Ebola infections in Liberia is driving a spiraling outbreak in West Africa that is increasingly putting health workers at risk as they struggle to treat an overwhelming number of patients.

October 24, 2015

Doctor fears rise of a drug-resistant strain will help malaria spread

Despite a sharp drop in malaria-related deaths over the past decade, a veteran doctor here, in the heart of the world’s malaria belt, says now is the time to wage a large-scale battle with the mosquito-borne disease.

October 24, 2015

Use of experimental drug on Americans infected with Ebola causes controversy

President Obama sought to head off a controversy Wednesday over the use of an experimental drug on two Americans who have been infected with the Ebola virus. 

October 24, 2015

Troops deploy in Sierra Leone, Liberia to try to stop Ebola spread

Canada's Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp., whose shares have soared in the past fortnight on hopes for its Ebola therapy, said its drug was not used to treat two U.S. aid workers who were recently infected, a Canadian news agency reported

October 24, 2015

Researchers uncover clues to deadly 1918 flu pandemic

The deadly 1918 pandemic flu spread faster than any other illness in recorded history – and now researchers may understand why.

October 24, 2015

U of Iowa has 60 percent of state's mumps cases, agency says

The bulk of Iowa's jump in mumps cases has been reported at the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City.

October 24, 2015

Princess Cruises ship returns to Houston port after nearly 200 fall ill

Federal health officials are investigating the outbreak of an illness on Princess Cruises' Caribbean Princess, just days after another cruise ship cut short its Caribbean trip after more than 600 people became sick with a gastrointestinal illness.

October 24, 2015

Rhode Island child dies after contracting enterovirus D68, other infection

A child in Rhode Island died last week from a very rare combination of infections, including enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), the Rhode Island Department of Health confirmed.