A point spread is the most popular form of sports betting. It serves as a reference for how oddsmakers and the betting public view one team relative to another. In this article, we'll look at what a ...

A new supply-chain attack has infected 36 packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) index with infostealer malware called IronWorm. The malware targets 86 environment variables (key-value pairs) and ...

Rest vs. rust. It is an age-old sports debate. Athletes may want more of a reprieve entering something like the NBA Finals, as the playoffs have taxed their bodies at a consistently high rate, but ...

The World Health Organization has declared an international public health emergency as a growing Ebola outbreak in Central Africa sparks concern that the deadly virus could spread beyond the region — ...

While the world closely watched an outbreak of hantavirus unfold on a luxury cruise ship earlier this month, another deadly infectious disease was sweeping through one of Africa’s largest countries ...

The head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday the scale and speed of the deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda “warrants serious concern,” as healthcare ...

An Ebola outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo linked to 65 deaths and hundreds of suspected infections has spread across the border to Uganda, triggering concern that it will be even ...

The many paths by which the religion flourished across Asia. The arrows represent the general spread of Buddhism, often via trade routes, throughout Asia, beginning around the fourth century ...

An international team of disease detectives is now racing to connect with the more than two dozen passengers who disembarked the MV Honius cruise ship on the Atlantic island of St. Helena before the ...

Editor's note: This page summarizes news of the Hantavirus outbreak for Thursday, May 7. For the latest on hantavirus, visit USA TODAY's coverage for Friday, May 8. Residents of multiple countries, ...

A hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has raised questions about how the rare, often fatal illness could have spread among passengers and crew, and whether it may continue to ...

Hantavirus is a rare but potentially deadly disease spread primarily through contact with infected rodents and their droppings, urine or saliva. Health officials say the virus most commonly spreads ...