West Nile

“Just because certain terms have been used in the past doesn’t make it appropriate now. We know that language evolves,” an expert said.

Two counties in New York have found mosquitoes that tested positive for carrying the potentially deadly EEE virus

Two more people in New Jersey were confirmed to be infected with a potentially deadly mosquito-borne illness that has been spreading across the region

The alleged sexual predator accused of ambushing a young woman in her suburban New Jersey home earlier this month pleaded not guilty to a slate of charges including aggravated sexual assault on Tuesday.

A suspect was arrested in the home ambush and sex attack of a young woman that shook residents of a tight-knit New Jersey suburb, prosecutors said Sunday.

Authorities in a tight-knit New Jersey suburb say they are investigating a home ambush and sex attack of a young woman — and they’re urging residents to be vigilant until they have the vicious suspect in custody.

New Jersey has seen three confirmed cases of a rare paralyzing illness affecting children that has been on the rise throughout the country this year, its state Department of Health said.

Health officials are reporting a jump in cases of a rare paralyzing illness in children, and say it seems to be following an every-other-year pattern. At least 62 confirmed cases have been reported in 22 states this year, and an additional 65 illnesses in those states are being investigated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the latest numbers...

Nearly three dozen human cases of West Nile virus, two of them fatal, have been reported in New Jersey so far this year, authorities said Monday.

Health officials in Westchester County say mosquitoes in the area have tested positive for West Nile virus.

A Long Island resident who died this month has positive for West Nile virus, marking Suffolk County’s first such death in nearly a decade.

Texas health officials say the Federal Emergency Management Agency will use military planes to spray chemicals near Houston to help control disease-carrying mosquitoes following Hurricane Harvey. Texas Health and Human Services spokesman Chris Van Deusen says spraying begins Saturday evening east of Houston, in Jefferson, Orange and Chambers counties.

A person is in serious condition at a Manhattan hospital with West Nile virus, the first human case of the 2017 season, city health officials say.  The patient is less than 50 years old and has underlying medical conditions, according to the health department.  Human cases of West Nile happen each year in New York City, and most of them…

The New York City health department says it’s detected the first mosquitoes with West Nile virus of the season.  The infected mosquitoes were found in the Rossville section of Staten Island. No human cases have been reported to date.  The health department says it will spray pesticide to target mosquitoes if persistent West Nile activity is detected, and continue...

A surprising new study finds that mosquito populations have exploded in parts of the United States, but not because of a warming climate. Instead, the study finds, growing cities and the ban on the insecticide DDT may be responsible, NBC News reported. The trend doesn’t bode well for the spread of illness — not just Zika virus, but West Nile...

Monmouth County officials say they’ve found evidence of mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus in the county.

An experimental vaccine for the Zika virus is due to begin human testing in the coming weeks, after getting the green light from U.S. health officials. Inovio Pharmaceuticals said Monday it received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to begin early-stage safety tests of its DNA-based vaccine against the mosquito-borne virus. That puts the company ahead of researchers at...

The spreading of the Zika virus has caused worldwide concern. Health officials think Zika might be connected to the rise in a birth defects in the Americas, though it has not yet been proven, and have labeled the crisis a global emergency.

Drugmaker Sanofi Pasteur said Tuesday it is launching an effort to research and develop a vaccine to prevent the Zika virus, after the World Health Organization declared a global emergency over its explosive spread across the Americas. There is no treatment or vaccine for the mosquito-borne virus, which has been linked to birth defects and is in the same family...

Health officials are on alert for a debilitating virus that could spread around Southern California and potentially infect thousands of people.