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This will be the first of four match-ups between these two teams this season.

The state-appointed emergency manager for Detroit’s public schools said the sick-out closed 88 schools and caused almost 45,000 students to miss classes.

In schools with so-called water jets, which chill and oxygenate the water, the odds of boys being overweight were 0.9 percent less than among boys in schools without water jets.

The Illinois Department of Public Health said Tuesday doctors are monitoring the women’s health and their pregnancies.

An Italian surgeon claims to have carried out the world’s first head transplant on a monkey and plans to repeat the procedure on a living human by the end of next year.

“Increase incidents of microcephaly in Brazil, which is linked to acquiring the virus while pregnancy”, said Dr. Daniel Skiest, chief of infectious diseases at Baystate Medical Center.

A brand-new strain of avian flu, this one called H7N8, has been found on a turkey farm in Indiana. Though most of the flock on the IN farm was killed within 29 hours. Tests confirmed eight out of the nine have a low-pathogenic strain of the virus, the USDA said in a statement on...

President Dilma Rousseff says Brazil is trying to develop vaccine against the Zika and dengue viruses.

A bird flu virus that’s a different strain than the one that ravaged turkey and chicken farms in the Midwest last summer has been found at a southern in turkey farm, federal officials said Friday, cautioning that a quick response could stem any larger outbreak. Water is...

“Doctors don’t normally go on strike, because we want to spend our time caring for our patients”.

Evidence of a rise of birth defects in Brazil has health experts concerned the virus is far more risky than people initially realized.

That strain led to the deaths of 48 million birds, mostly chickens and turkeys.

The Zika virus transmission has been documented in Brazil, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Martinique, Paraguay, El Salvador, Mexico, Suriname, French Guiana, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela, Guyana, Haiti, Barbados, Ecuador and St Martin.

EARLIER: Animal health officials investigating a bird flu outbreak in southwest in have ordered 156,000 chickens at one of 10 affected commercial poultry farms to be euthanized, raising the total number of birds to be killed above 400,000. It’s been so cold that foam used...

(Closed): US markets were flat on Tuesday, their first trading session of the week, as oil continued to drag energy stocks down.