(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 11 - The number of victims of an outbreak of West Nile Virus in Lazio, Campania and Piedmont rose to 17 after an 83-year-old man died at Caserta Monday, the eighth victim in the ...

CULVER CITY, Calif. — Kidnappers used to make ransom notes with letters cut out of magazines. Now, notes simply pop up on your computer screen, except the hostage is your PC. In the past year, ...

The hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius departed Cape Verde for Tenerife on Wednesday, as authorities rush to trace anyone who may have come into contact with the virus.

Health officials in several countries are trying to identify and follow people who may have been exposed to hantavirus on a cruise ship.

A deadly virus that has rampaged across Northern California has now made to the leap to the south of the state, officials have warned. Dozens of cases of avian flu were detected in Ano Nuevo State ...

A Liberian identified as Mr. Patrick Sawyer, who came to Lagos aboard a flight from Monrovia on Sunday and suspected to have the deadly Ebola virus is dead. Although there is no official confirmation ...