A simple sore throat can sometimes trigger years of silent heart damage. Rheumatic heart disease grows quietly, often ...

A woman in New York may have contracted a case of locally-transmitted chikungunya virus, an illness usually associated with travel. Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne viral disease that can cause fever, ...

Lupus has been linked to the Epstein-Barr virus – which causes glandular fever, or mono – before, but we now have evidence of ...