Today’s column continues the theme of plant viruses introduced in this column last week. A virus can reduce a plant’s growth, lower its yield and result in inferior fruit, vegetables and flowers.

Two people in New Jersey have died from West Nile virus, state health officials said Friday, bringing the number of reported deaths in the U.S. to five this mosquito season. According to health ...

If only Moira on 9-1-1 was more like Moira on Schitt's Creek. On Thursday's episode of the ABC drama, a scientist named Moira — not played by Schitt's Creek's Catherine O'Hara — is to blame for the ...

Deaths from COVID-19 have slowed significantly but continue adding to a tally of more than 7 million deaths from the virus in the nearly five years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a ...

Two Queens residents have tested positive for West Nile virus, New York City health officials announced Friday. One patient was diagnosed with West Nile neuroinvasive disease and is currently ...

ATLANTA — The Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported an increase in the number of West Nile virus cases in Georgia. From Aug. 22 to Tuesday, cases tripled in the state, ...

Health officials in Guangdong province in southern China are waging an all-out war against mosquitoes in response to an outbreak of the chikungunya virus that's sickened thousands with fever, rashes ...

The number of West Nile virus cases in Massachusetts this year doubled on Friday as public health officials announced two more. Risk levels for the mosquito-borne virus are high in 28 communities in ...

Ten more mosquito samples have tested positive for West Nile virus in Canyon County, prompting officials to remind residents to take additional precautions – especially with Labor Day celebrations ...

Rabbits with horn-like growths, sometimes called "tentacle rabbits," have recently been spotted hopping around Colorado. Their appearance is because of a virus in the animal, officials say. Residents ...