The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging traveling Americans to be on high alert for a deadly mosquito-borne virus after reporting an outbreak of chikungunya in Cuba this week.

State health officials are currently probing whether the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus that has triggered an aggressive COVID-esque response in China is now spreading in New York after a Long ...

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A possible locally-transmitted case of chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne illness linked to tropical regions, is being investigated by New York state health officials. A New York woman said she ...

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The New York State Department of Health is investigating a possible case of a rare mosquito-borne virus locally transmitted to a person in Nassau County, officials confirmed Thursday. Health officials ...

A team of researchers from Stanford University and the Arc Institute in Palo Alto, California say they’ve created viruses with AI-designed DNA that can target and kill specific bacteria. And these ...

As COVID-19 continues to evolve, a new strain is spiking case numbers worldwide. The XFG variant, also known as Stratus, has been gaining momentum after first being detected in Southeast Asia in ...

Before the United States began vaccinating all infants at birth with the hepatitis B vaccine in 1991, around 18,000 children every year contracted the virus before their 10th birthday—about half of ...

HEMPSTEAD, Long Island (WABC) -- The New York State Health Department is investigating a possible case of the rare mosquito-borne virus, chikungunya. Officials say a 60-year-old woman from Hempstead, ...