The World Health Organization reported two cases of a rare virus in an eastern Indian state on Thursday.

“Disease X,” according to the World Health Organization, “represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease.” Indeed ...

Nipah virus infection is a zoonotic illness that is transmitted to people from animals, and can also be transmitted through ...

Infections have increased sharply in recent weeks. April 27, 2014— -- Cases of the MERS Coronavirus have significantly increased in the last few months, and in recent weeks there have been ...

I became a science writer — well, at least a part-time one — because I lived through SARS. I was a reporter for TIME’s Hong Kong office 10 years ago, mostly covering books, films and whichever exotic ...