Wastewater detection of wild-type measles virus preceded the initial reported case in Oregon in 2024 by 10 weeks, according to an MMWR report.

As the Zika virus spreads from South America to the United States, epidemiologist and public health expert Christine Hockett says disease surveillance technology is key to protecting against it.

When the H5N1 bird flu virus jumps from animals into people, it hits a dead end. Missing the key genes that would help it infect humans, it isn’t causing a pandemic. But if the virus suddenly changed ...

New research suggests that current disease surveillance systems may be overlooking animal-borne viruses that do not fit existing diagnostic frameworks.

The federal government shutdown has brought respiratory virus surveillance to a halt at the national level, leaving local governments, health systems and the general public with critical blind spots ...

The Lackawanna County West Nile Virus Prevention Program recently began its seasonal mosquito monitoring, with the first traps of the season set last week. Seasonal mosquito surveillance will continue ...

China is taking severe measures after an outbreak of a mosquito-borne illness rare in the country. There have been more than 7,000 cases of chikungunya virus, with more than 3,000 reported in the past ...

COVID-19 appears to be on the rise in several parts of the country, including Northern Kentucky, Southeast Indiana, and Southwest Ohio. Sampling has indicated an increase in the amount of virus in ...