That same year the deadly disease killed more than 5,500 people in the United States. Today more than 35 million people around the world are living with an HIV infection. More than 25 million ...

and killed billions of humans throughout history. Malaria is the deadliest disease known to man — and it still infects hundreds of millions of people every year. Produced by Alex Kuzoian Follow ...

Gerald N. Grob has taken on this task for his field in his new book, The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America. The book begins with a careful appraisal of the health of pre-Columbian ...

The United States, over the years, has seen several epidemics of infectious diseases. Here, take a look at the worst outbreaks in the history of the U.S. This infectious disease came to North ...

But few diseases match the year-in, year-out power of this deadly viral infection. Each year it takes the lives of about 37,000 people in the United States and between 250,000 and 500,000 worldwide.

Cases of tuberculosis are on the rise for the first time in decades amid one of the worst outbreaks of the world’s deadliest ...

Florida oranges had their worst crop in 70 years. They're facing a deadly disease called citrus greening, spread in the body of the invasive Asian citrus psyllid. Today, nearly every citrus grove ...