Taking precautions to protect yourself from the quartet of infectious diseases can lessen your odds of bringing an illness ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported high rates of influenza in Georgia and South Carolina.

Dr. Craig Shapiro, an infectious disease specialist at the Children's National Hospital, joined DC News Now to share ...

Feeling under the weather? Local health officials are tracking a variety of viruses making rounds in the community right now.

There’s been a surge in a stomach bug known as norovirus since the beginning of December, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Eric Ascher, ...

Outbreaks are often seen on cruise ships, in living situations like nursing homes and jails, along with other places where ...

Symptoms of norovirus include vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pains, and sometimes a fever. Most people recover within one to three days, but the virus can remain in the system for up to two weeks or more ...

The agency says it is looking for red flags, but the risk to the public still remains low. Meanwhile, a Louisiana patient with a severe case of bird flu showed worrying mutations in the samples ...

Norovirus is surging across the United States this winter, according to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data show 91 ...

Cruise ships saw the highest number of stomach bug illnesses since 2012 with 16 outbreaks impacting a total of 1,894 ...

The latest from New Orleans after the deadly New Year's Eve attack - Two people were killed and two children were abducted out of Washtenaw County on Wednesday - A surge in a stomach virus is cause fo ...

Norovirus is the leading cause of foodborne illness in the U.S. It is very contagious. Common symptoms include abdominal pain ...