A 100-page emergency plan recently released by government officials says the 2019-nCoV crisis in the US could drag on for 18 months. Perhaps even longer, Fox News reports. The plan says that the country can observe ...

In addition to the most common airborne route by which the new Chinese coronavirus is transmitted, scientists have named another route - fecal-oral, or the method of transmission of the virus through the digestive tract, writes Fox News. According to Chinese state media, scientists from Wuhan University Renmin Hospital...

Just in time for Thanksgiving, millions of people were informed of the recall of a number of romaine lettuce products that were found to be infected with E. coli. Such products are extremely dangerous to eat, and the only way out was to get rid of the salad. Apparently, not everyone did it, because ...

Health officials are asking consumers to avoid all types of romaine lettuce due to an outbreak of E. coli, which has spread to at least 16 states, sending up to 60 people to hospital, including 8 inmates in an Alaska prison. Control Centers ...

On the island of Oahub, Hawaii, an outbreak of hepatitis A has been reported. Over the past two weeks, 12 people have become ill, of whom six required hospitalization. Typically, the hepatitis A virus is spread through water, food and close personal contact. The infection leads to liver inflammation, which is easy ...

In New York, two people have died as a result of an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease (also known as Pittsburgh pneumonia). Since mid-July, the New York City Department of Health has reported 31 cases of influenza in the south Bronx. Legionnaires' disease is a respiratory bacterial infection that typically spreads...