The 6-week-old died Aug. 18 at home, after being in palliative care at home soon after birth, Lancaster County coroner Stephen Diamantoni said.

For the first time in decades, Tampa Bay is seeing outbreaks of dengue fever. Officials are working overtime to beat it back.

Local health departments in North Carolina have evaluated hundreds of people for rabies after they interacted with baby goats that were part of a mobile petting zoo, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.

Another person in Florida has died after coming in contact with a dangerous bacterium that can develop into a flesh-eating infection.

As North Carolinians head to lakes and the coast for Labor Day weekend, health experts are warning about two rare but potentially deadly water-related infections. Here’s how to reduce your risk of “brain-eating amoeba” and “flesh-eating bacteria” infections.

Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.

The Asian longhorned tick nairovirus caused flu-like illness and thrombocytopenia in over 10% of tick-bitten patients studied in a China lab.

A New Hampshire man lived for a record 271 days with a transplanted pig kidney before doctors replaced it with a human one — in a procedure that’s kept him alive ever since and could offer new hope to countless others, researchers said Thursday.

The toddler developed a life-threatening condition caused by a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infection