Encephalitis is a disease referring to the inflammation or swelling of the brain. Broadly, it can happen because of infections, including viral infections, or the immune system acting up. That’s why ...

The disease affected millions, but to this day has not been satisfactorily explained. The symptoms were pretty distressing.

Dear J.M.: Encephalitis means inflammation of the brain, which is a rare condition. It can be caused by infections ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Ever since I had my son, I tend to worry whenever he gets ill, so I try to educate myself on different viruses and autoimmune disorders. I recently came across encephalitis. What is ...

Dr. Mahendra J V shares the top warning signs that a Nipah-infected patient ay develop after contracting the strain. Read on to know more about this virus.

A 41-year-old man in Hampstead, New Hampshire, has died as a result of a rare, mosquito-borne virus while another man in his 80s in Worcester County, Massachusetts, has been hospitalized. Nearly a ...

My 28-year-old son is in the hospital. He hasn’t been acting like himself for a few weeks (not sleeping nor eating ...

Health authorities in the United States are issuing warnings and closing public parks due to a rare but potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease. This week, a resident of the US state of New ...

"People have forgotten what life is all about," Robert De Niro's character says in the film "Awakenings" after being revived from the shut-down state he had been in for 30 years. "They've forgotten ...

On Nov. 9, the Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services in California confirmed the first case of St. Louis Encephalitis since 1984 Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at ...