(NEXSTAR) – The latest measles update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports a total of 935 confirmed measles cases across dozens of states. That number is now ...

Tropical diseases spread by mosquitoes Includes malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, chikungunya fever and Zika virus ... women can pass the virus to their baby. Breastfeeding: it is not passed in ...

In very rare instances, the virus is spread through exposure in a lab, blood transfusions, organ transplants, or from mother to infant via the placenta or breastfeeding. It is not spread through ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says a “newly dominant” strain may be responsible for the recent wave of norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships. Of that total, 10 were norovirus ...

In 2012, researchers isolated a new virus that infects and kills this bacterium—a bacteriophage named φTE (phiTE). Now, for the first time, scientists have uncovered the atomic structure of ...

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A federal panel of medical experts on Wednesday recommended an expansion of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV ... recommendations to the director of the CDC on how vaccines should be used.

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said he will order the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to revise its recommendation, which has stood for seven decades, that fluoride be added ...