A dream trip has turned into a floating nightmare for passengers and crew aboard the MV Hondius, where a hantavirus outbreak has killed three and sickened at least four others. Nearly 150 people still on board are in quarantine after health officials confirmed that two passengers were infected with the Andes strain,

A suspected hantavirus outbreak on an Atlantic cruise ship has killed at least three people. Learn about symptoms, spread and prevention tips.

The World Health Organization confirmed at least three people have died and three others have fallen ill following a suspected hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship

A virus plaguing shrimp and other seafood might also be responsible for an emerging eye disease in people that can cause permanent blindness, recent research suggests. Scientists in China have linked the covert mortality nodavirus (CMNV) to cases of a condition known as persistent ocular hypertension viral anterior uveitis,

More cases of the Oropouche virus disease, also known as sloth fever, are being reported in the United States this year among travelers returning from Cuba and Brazil. The viral disease, which is spread by small flies and some types of mosquitoes, can ...

Experts are concerned a surge in emergency room visits for tick bites, reported recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may lead to other chronic illnesses.

Marie Saavedra joined the CBS2 Chicago news team in October 2020 as an anchor. She grew up in Evanston and is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism. New research from Northwestern Medicine has discovered that a virus that is usually harmless ...

A common virus once thought harmless to humans might be linked to Parkinson's disease, a new study says. The germ, Human Pegivirus (HPgV), was found in half the autopsied brains of patients with Parkinson's, but not in any brains from healthy people ...

A groundbreaking new study out of Northwestern Medicine may offer new hope for the more than one million Americans living with Parkinson’s disease. Researchers have identified a possible trigger for the neurodegenerative disorder — a virus once ...

Since the family of rodent-borne infections were identified in the 1950s, they have turned up all over the world.