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The rise of infections caused by Mgen, C. auris, treatment-resistant E. coli, and more could become future public-health threats, experts say.

Bavarian Nordic announced on Friday a new contract with the European Commission, allowing countries across Europe to buy up ...

Clade I, the version of mpox now circulating in Southern California, is not new to science. It’s been responsible for severe ...

Health officials in the mid-Atlantic region have recently reported a rise in hand, foot and mouth disease, or HFMD.

Ebola is one of the nasty viruses that can hide in the body even after a patient recovers and tests negative. It can reemerge and trigger a new outbreak years later. How do they survive? And how can ...

Introduction: Egyptian rousette bats (ERBs) are the only known natural reservoir of Marburg virus (MARV), etiologic agent of a highly-pathogenic zoonotic viral hemorrhagic fever. Evolutionary ...

A person living in New York tested positive for the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus in the first reported transmission within the US in six years, officials said on Tuesday. The chikungunya virus is ...

University of Toronto researchers have made the first discovery of a virus that infects Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease. The findings, published in Science ...

A year ago, Rwanda faced its first outbreak of Marburg virus. Dr. Tsion Firew remembers how scared she was — and how that didn't stop her from playing a key role in the remarkably effective response.