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The World Health Organization says the deadly Wuhan coronavirus that originated in China is now a “global health emergency”.
China is making increasingly drastic efforts to stop the spread of the virus, which has killed at least 80 and sickened more than 2,700.
The finding by Abbott Laboratories scientists “tells us that the HIV epidemic is still ongoing and still evolving,” an epidemiology expert said.
Health officials in Orange County, California, are warning moviegoers who saw a midnight screening of “Avengers: Endgame” that they may have contracted measles from an infected audience member.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Deaths and paralysis stemming from respiratory infections have been reported, but those cases are rare.
San Diego is bleaching its streets in an effort to combat the hepatitis A outbreak affecting the city’s homeless.
More than 11,300 people have died over the past two years in the world's worst Ebola epidemic, nearly all of them in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
While Zika virus isn't spreading in the U.S., experts say it's only a matter of time.
It tracks the way that viruses assemble.
