Traveling can expose people to new cultures and sights, but sometimes it can also expose people to diseases not typically seen at home. This is expected to be the case for one US patient.

People who had chicken pox as a child may develop shingles — an often painful, blistering rash caused by the same virus — as an adult. Now researchers suggest that having shingles may lead to a more serious health issue.

Mumps is now a fairly rare occurrence in the US, thanks to routine vaccination programs. However, outbreaks can still occur, as some residents of one US state are seeing.

Though not a direct threat on American soil, health officials from the US and around the world are closely watching an outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa.

HIV patients can live longer, healthier lives today and one recent study took a look at their risk for a disease usually associated with growing older.

Measles is no longer a widespread issue in the US, but that doesn't mean infections and outbreaks can't occur, as one US state is currently seeing.

For most kids, the flu means missed days from school and bad symptoms, but for others it can spell hospital time. According to a new study, there may be a way to keep many of these kids out of the hospital.

Are your kids really washing their hands properly? A new infectious disease outbreak in Miami may cause some parents and teachers to take extra note of these hygiene habits.

An outbreak of the infectious disease, mumps, that was discovered on a university campus in Ohio has now spread wider, leading health officials to remind the public about vaccinations.

Many Americans get the mumps vaccine as a child, then almost forget that the virus exists. But a recent outbreak on a college campus has drawn attention back to mumps in the US.