Photo: CNA CDC Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) said leptospirosis is a bacterial disease mainly spread ...

A 12-year-old boy has died from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a South Carolina lake over the July Fourth weekend ...

The amoeba entered his brain through his nose, possibly when he jumped into Lake Murray, near Columbia. The CDC said 167 ...

Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina’s most popular ...

The parents of Jaysen Carr are calling for freshwater testing and public alerts after their son died of a brain infection ...

Infections caused by Naegleria fowleri can lead to symptoms including fever, seizures, hallucinations and death.

An adult in Hancock County became infected with Powassan virus and was hospitalized after developing neurologic symptoms.

Recent outbreaks of measles in the United States are driving up case counts and raising alarm among public health experts, ...