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A man in Lincoln County, New Mexico has succumbed to the plague, marking the first human case of the rare disease in the state since 2021 and the first fatal case since 2020

An elderly man has become the first person to die from the recently discovered Alaskapox virus, which is related to smallpox, cowpox, and mpox, and has only been reported in six other cases

The passenger returning from a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo reported that the luggage contained dried fish, but an inspection at Boston Logan Airport revealed dead and dehydrated bodies of four monkeys, agents said

Health chiefs in Oregan’s Deschutes County, say the individual probably caught the illness through close contact with their infected moggy and is now being treated for the potentially deadly condition.

Diseases that were once thought to be eradicated are making a comeback in the US and beyond with experts warning about the return of illnesses like leprosy and syphilis.

With a new Covid variant JN.1 sweeping the US, many states or big cities are reporting high or very high levels of respiratory illness with more people reporting anxiety as a symptom

Worldwide EG.5 is still the dominant coronavirus strain according to the World Health Organisation, but the new omicron subvariant HV.1 is dominating across the pond

Dengue fever kills one in every 100 patients and kills thousands every year across Asia and South America - but fears are rising it could become endemic in the US due to rising global temperatures

Two people in California have been diagnosed with a serious illness that is normally spread by mosquitoes overseas, but the two say they haven't traveled anywhere, worrying health experts

A man in his 30s has died after eating raw oysters in a Texas restaurant amidst concern over the rising levels of flesh eating bacteria 'Vibrio Vulnificus' rise around the US

A desperate mum said that she first started noticing her son's experience with pain when she purchased a bounce house for the then four-year-old and his sibling during the Covid lockdown. Turning to ChatGPT after three years and visits with 17 doctors, she finally got some clarity

Candida auris has been spreading rapidly throughout the US, and the rest of the world, with potentially deadly consequences due to its difficulty to diagnose and resistance to many antifungal treatments

The listeria outbreak was connected to a small region of Washington State including the area around the city of Tacoma - so far investigators haven't been able to find the common cause

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the deaths of a young woman and her child from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare disease transmitted by mice

Uterine cancer cases are on the rise in the US — and they could soon surpass ovarian cancer cases in terms of the number of deaths that result from them, an oncologist says

Warnings of the West Nile virus were issued across the US - the disease, transmitted by mosquitoes, can cause fever or chills, but can develop into something much more serious

The CDC and WHO are investigating dozens of potential cases of fungal meningitis sprouting from two Mexico clinics that offered cosmetic surgeries to US patients

A new report revealed that lab workers at the Mayo Clinic Arizona were exposed to the bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei. The bacteria is considered 'endemic' to multiple states along the Gulf Coast of the US

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recorded a spike in human metapneumovirus (hMPV) cases, with flu-like symptoms. Here's all you need to know about the virus

Beaches along South Florida, US, are being filled with Sargassum which is a thick, brown algae that releases a horrific smell as it decays, according to a new study from Florida Atlantic University

An urgent warning has been issued by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in the US over a salmonella outbreak reported among patients who recently ate raw cookie dough

A second person, thought to be from Texas, US, is believed to have contracted fungal meningitis after doctors used un-sterilized equipment during surgery in Matamoros in Mexico

Scientists are warning that a microbe named Naegleria fowleri amoeba, responsible for a deadly brain infection known as primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), is spreading

A woman in the US has described the grim symptoms of a strange and contagious fungal disease known as 'tinea', of which two cases have been reported in women in the country

The drug-resistant ringworm, known as tinea, is becoming increasingly common due to higher temperatures driven by climate change and is resistant to some medication, according to medical experts