Correctional officers often dictate end-of-life care for incarcerated people who are terminally ill. Most states either don’t have a formal policy or are given leeway — a big concern for families and ...

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne pathogen that has been identified in more than 110 countries around the world.

In very rare instances, the virus is spread through exposure in a lab, blood transfusions, organ transplants, or from mother to infant via the placenta or breastfeeding. It is not spread through ...

While there have not been any recent outbreaks of Zika, PAHO said the virus continues to circulate, with 44,242 cases reported in 2024, compared to 37,659 cases in 2023. These viruses directly ...

Papua New Guinea reported the presence of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in healthy children from Lae City, Morobe Province, on May 9, 2025. The discovery, stemming from ...

Recent ones include the Marburg virus, Mpox, Ebola, Zika and the nightmarish experience we faced during the Covid-19 pandemic. No one was ready. Governments and scientists across the world ...

Yellow fever is an acute virus that is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected mosquitoes such as the Aedes aegypti, the same vector that transmits the chikungunya, dengue, and Zika viruses.

The creator of the Dilbert comic strip, which was cancelled by most newspapers two years ago over the creator’s racist comments, said Monday that he has been diagnosed with the same aggressive ...

His cartoons have appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. He is syndicated and appears in more than 450 American newspapers. Pat was born ...