The House GOP grilled Fairfax D.A. Steve Descano over his controversial soft-on-crime record, particularly his office's ...

The best chance of finding life may not be on planets but on icy moons. Hidden oceans beneath Europa and Titan could hold the ...

The internet is going wild over how “The X-Files” and “The Simpsons” supposedly “predicted” the hantavirus outbreak — with ...

Passengers evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise arrive at an airport in the Netherlands after a hantavirus outbreak on board.

In our news wrap Friday, the Pentagon began releasing new files on UFOs, health authorities in the Canary Islands are ...

South Carolina’s measles outbreak lasted about six months and sickened nearly 1,000 people in what was the U.S.’s worst flare-up of the disease since it was declared eliminated in the country in 2000.

New global modeling shows that about 9.3% of the world’s land area is highly vulnerable to the risk of dangerous disease outbreaks. These hotspots are concentrated in Latin America and Oceania, where ...

California is battling one of its largest measles outbreaks in nearly a decade after new cases in Sacramento pushed the state’s total to 39. The outbreak, which began in Sacramento and Placer counties ...

California mom ‘anguished’ after 14-year-old son on e-motorcycle allegedly killed veteran Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke dies at 29 Disease outbreak cuts Wyoming, Yellowstone wolf numbers to ...

Alexander Sundermann is an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. Food recalls are familiar: an outbreak of E. coli or salmonella tied to a ...