A Leicester charity which dates back before both world wars and the Spanish Flu is celebrating its 150th anniversary. Charity Link, located in the city's Millstone Lane, originally founded as the ...

A remarkable new study of the world’s oldest verified living person reveals a surprising picture of extreme longevity. Maria Branyas lived through two world wars, the 1918 flu pandemic, the Spanish ...

When the last Ebola outbreak in DR Congo was declared over, I breathed a sigh of relief. As long as our neighbours aren’t being ravaged by one of the deadliest diseases ever known, we are safe. Yet ...

Louisville’s Maricia Richardson grew up hearing that she didn’t need to get vaccinated. She didn’t consider herself “anti vax” — more like vaccine hesitant — and much of that resistance was rooted in ...

Sure, we've come a long way, but the fundamentals of cleaning and washing have remained more constant than you might think ...

Louisville’s Maricia Richardson grew up hearing that she didn’t need to get vaccinated. She didn’t consider herself “anti vax ...

Virologists and public health specialists have warned about the pandemic threat for years. H5N1, a problem in chickens for decades, first infected humans in 1997, in an outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

Some Americans seem to be extra-alarmed about Ebola and hantavirus in the wake of COVID-19. But public health experts say ...

The Dartmouth Review is a bi-weekly conservative newspaper at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. It was founded in ...

The Ottawa County Health Department is sharing data on diseases in the county in their new online dashboard. The new page on the health department's website shares weekly trends for the flu, COVID-19 ...

When it comes to infectious diseases in the news, you often hear terms like outbreak, epidemic, pandemic and endemic. The differences in these terms comes down to the scope of ...

I-71 fatal shooting not road rage but not random: sheriff's office The deadly shooting of a man on I-71 on May 21 was not a case of road rage, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office. 4 ...