Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Washington State Department of Health announced the death on Friday, noting that the person who died had been hospitalized ...

An adult in Lafayette is the first human death of West Nile virus in Colorado this year. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, along with Boulder County Health, confirmed the death ...

New research reveals that the bird flu viruses may be capable of replicating at temperatures higher than an average fever, a key bodily defense mechanism against severe infection. The international ...

A human has died of pneumonic plague in northern Arizona, Coconino County health officials confirmed July 11. The case is not connected to a recent die-off of prairie dogs in the area, officials said.

SOUTH CAROLINA, USA — A South Carolina resident has died after contracting Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a rare mosquito-borne virus that typically infects horses. State health officials said it is the ...

JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi state health officials confirmed on Friday the first human death of the year from the West Nile virus. The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) said the death ...

A person in the Washington State has died of avian influenza. It’s the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. since January—but the infection was of a different strain than the one that has been ...