Health

China's most festive holiday began in the shadow of a worrying new virus Saturday as the death toll surpassed 40, an unprecedented lockdown kept 36 million people from traveling and authorities canceled a host of Lunar New Year events.

At least 34 U.S. troops were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after an Iranian missile strike hit an Iraqi air base earlier this month, officials at the Pentagon announced Friday.

The New Jersey Department of Health says a woman who was brought to Hackensack University Medical Center to be evaluated for symptoms consistent with coronavirus does not have it after further tests. 

The CDC announced the second confirmed case of the deadly coronavirus in the U.S. and said it was investigating dozens of potential patients across the country.

Officials said a 60-year-old woman from Chicago who came in through O'Hare International Airport on Jan. 13 was diagnosed with the coronavirus.

Shanghai Disneyland said the shutdown would begin on Jan. 25 in response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak.

A British woman who survived cervical cancer but was told she may never be able to have children has since welcomed a set of “miracle”  twins.

Kathleen Thorson suffered a hemorrhagic stroke and died just days after giving birth to her fourth child.

China's National Health Commission says the number of cases of a new respiratory virus has risen to 830 with 25 deaths.    

Three cities that are home to more than 18 million people have been shut down in China in an effort to contain the deadly virus that has killed 17 people.

There’s now a confirmed case of Novel Coronavirus in a man from Washington State. 

A passenger arriving on an American Airlines flight to Los Angeles International Airport from Mexico City was hospitalized and quarantined after showing what health officials called “disturbing" symptoms, that indicate the patient may have been exposed to the deadly coronavirus,  it was announced Thursday.  

It's sick season, and a particularly fast-spreading outbreak of coronavirus in China has CDC officials urging everyone to practice proper hygiene, especially during air travel.

The Chinese city is shutting down all transportation out of the city, saying that no one would be allowed to leave, officials reported.

A Chinese health official says 440 cases of the new coronavirus have been confirmed and at least nine deaths.

The number of cases of a new virus has risen to 440 in China and the death toll has risen to 9, Chinese health authorities said Wednesday.

Health officials around the world are keeping an eye on the outbreak of a new pneumonia-like virus that has killed at least six people and sickened some 300 others since it was first reported in China at the end of 2019.

The U.S. on Tuesday reported its first case of a new and potentially deadly virus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who returned last week from the outbreak's epicenter was hospitalized near Seattle.