One biologist found the discovery of a lifetime on an average day, and it's changing the way people see wildlife in urban areas.

Though a major fire killed a million Joshua trees in the Mojave desert, researchers found that fungi and bacteria underneath the scorched earth were totally unaffected.

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Viruses like norovirus might spread more easily on a cruise ship because passengers spend extended time in close quarters and share common spaces. CDC sanitation scores offer insight into a ship’s ...

(NEXSTAR) — As global health officials continue to monitor the hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship, French authorities have ordered 1,700 passengers on the British cruise ship ...

The cruise ship hantavirus outbreak reveals serious gaps in scientific knowledge about whether and how the pathogen can spread through the air between humans. Hantaviruses are typically spread by ...

A man goes to a birthday party, sits next to someone with hantavirus, catches it, gives it to his wife, and dies. His wife then infects 10 more people at his wake. Another guest at that same birthday ...

An international team of disease detectives is now racing to connect with the more than two dozen passengers who disembarked the MV Honius cruise ship on the Atlantic island of St. Helena before the ...