Outbreak

Workers at a northwest Michigan paper mill shuttered by a deadly fungal outbreak may never know how the outbreak started, according to the head of their union local.Gerald Kell, president of the United Steel Workers Local 21, told…

Measles is wildly contagious. Nearly 1 out of every 3 children under the age of 5 who catches measles ends up in the hospital.Are some young children at a greater risk from the measles virus during an outbreak? What, if anything, can…

At least one person has died and nearly 100 people have gotten sick in a rare fungal outbreak at a paper mill in Michigan, the health authorities said, prompting the plant to temporarily close as local and federal investigators try to…

The Blastomyces dermatitidis fungi seen here is the causative agent of the disease blastomycosis ... that can affect the lungs and more rarely skin, bones, and other organs. (Photo: Getty)getty This is one blast that you don’t want to…

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is looking into whether frozen organic strawberries that have been linked to a hepatitis A outbreak in the United States were also sold in Canada. Since mid-March, several brands of frozen organic…

A Michigan mill worker has died and at least a dozen other people have been hospitalized due to an outbreak of a rare fungal infection, according to local health officials. Public health officials say 21 confirmed and 76 probable…

At least one person has died, and 96 others have been sickened, in an outbreak of blastomycosis at a northwest Michigan paper mill, local health authorities confirmed Friday. Federal investigators are preparing to step up their…

Scientists continue to monitor the ongoing global avian influenza outbreak — also referred to as bird flu — that has killed millions of birds and has now crossed over to some species of mammals. Currently, the risk to humans remains…

Nearly 100 people have been infected and a dozen hospitalized by a rare fungus linked to a paper factory in Michigan. The fungus Blastomyces is feared to have arrived on moist and rotten wood at the Billerud paper mill in Escanaba, in the…

Oyewale Tomori is a virologist and fellow at the Nigerian Academy of Science.In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned doctors about two growing outbreaks of deadly Marburg virus in Africa. World Health…