Epidemiology Diagnostics

A deadly and mysterious fever is causing panic in the northern city of Kanpur, India and in the villages that surround the area.

Source of contamination still unclear, state health official says

The findings, based on a new formula developed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, estimated that 4,762 New Yorkers contracted H.I.V. in 2006...

E. coli contamination feared; firm had similar recall last month

At least 38 Warao Indians have died from an outbreak that preliminary studies indicate might be a type of infectious rabies transmitted by bites from bats.

Is the housing crisis to blame?

Mexican official says finding that pepper came from Mexico "premature"

American Indians are said to have introduced this warning centuries ago to early settlers, and nowadays the saying is applied to the months without an R, namely May through August. But it may be outdated...

Caused by travelers infected overseas who returned to U.S. ill, CDC says