Epidemic News

All aboard for some great thrilling entertainment! PBS Distribution is releasing Secrets of the Dead : Death on the Railroad.

Small pox, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps and rubella all are potential life-threatening diseases that have been almost completely eliminated from our society during our lifetimes.

Tamara Rubin's home and family were wracked by lead contamination eight years ago, catapulting her on a new life journey.

Leeper did an amazing acting job with a wonderful piece of theater . Leeper is alone on stage for 90 min as he plays 5 different GLBT characters.

PARENTS are being urged to check their children's health records and take immediate action if they have not had two doses of MMR vaccine, to help prevent a measles epidemic in Gwent.

Officials at the United Nations observed the International Day Against Homophobia Friday, urging member states to abolish laws criminalizing homosexuality, dpa reported.

A different kind of fight is being waged by a group of military men and women in the Federal Appeals Court on Broad Street in Richmond.

The USDA has confirmed that porcine epidemic diarrhea virus has been identified in the United States for the first time through testing at the National Veterinary Services Laboratory.

Two respiratory viruses in different parts of the world have captured the attention of global health officials - a novel coronavirus in the Middle East and a new bird flu spreading in China.

Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll from the H7N9 virus to 36 from 131 confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

In this May 14, 2013 photo, a National Guard soldier frisks a man outside his car at a checkpoint that is part of the "Secure Homeland" initiative in Petare, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods of Caracas, Venezuela.

Fifteen years ago when I began posting film reviews on the Internet, I sought to do for film what I had already been doing for politics, namely to draw people's attention to what was undeservedly neglected.

Since Action News aired amateur video this week purported to show a brutal beating of Aria Jewett at the hands of another female Oceanway Middle School student, our newsroom has been getting inundated with parents contacting us with personal stories of their children getting bullied at school.

New research suggests a link between concussions and suicide in the US military, two frighteningly common issues that the Armed Forces have struggled to explain and curtail since rates started soaring 12 years ago.

As HIV-vaccine trial participants, we grow accustomed to the routine blood draws, interacting with study staff and taking our computer-assisted interviews that catalog our risks.

Public Health Wales warn against complacency as figures in measles epidemic area and in Gwent, where there are increasing concerns about the disease, rise.

The White House and U.S. lawmakers went on the offensive against sexual assault in the armed forces on Thursday after a rash of scandals discrediting the military's efforts to stamp it out.

The swine flu virus that caused a 2009 pandemic has been found in elephant seals off the central California coast, according to new research.

Prescription drug abuse is on the rise in Fairfax County and a handful of local organizations are working to put a stop to what the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has classified as an epidemic.

Tamara Rubin's home and family were wracked by lead contamination eight years ago, catapulting her on a new life journey.