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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases speaks as President Donald Trump looks on. | Alex Wong/Getty Images TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — President Donald Trump and top White House health officials on Friday said a proposal floated by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to reopen state schools next month could help …

GEAUGA COUNTY, Ohio — Health officials have confirmed the first case of coronavirus in Geauga County. Details regarding the person’s gender, age and condition were not released. The case was announced Monday morning by Geauga Public Health. “Models suggest there are more people in Geauga County who are already infected and contagious, but who are …

FILE PHOTO: An Iranian man wears a protective face mask, following the coronavirus outbreak, as he walks in Tehran, Iran March 5, 2020. WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Nazanin Tabatabaee via REUTERS DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran has had 237 deaths from coronavirus and 7,161 infections, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said on state TV on Monday. …

The latest: With another 5,000 reported Friday, the number of cases in mainland China has now surged past 63,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the 15th case of coronavirus in the United States. Are you in isolation or quarantine because of the coronavirus? We want to hear about it. Have you seen …

FILE PHOTO: Medical workers in protective suits work inside an isolated section at a community health service center, which has received patients with mild symptoms caused by the novel coronavirus and suspected patients of the virus, in Qingshan district of Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 8, 2020. China Daily via REUTERS BEIJING (Reuters) – China …

The patient arrived in the US last week at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on a State Department flight from Wuhan, China, and was hospitalized with three others after showing possible symptoms of the virus. After an initial CDC test showed all four patients did not have the novel coronavirus, they were released Sunday and …

A Georgia woman might be facing charges after claiming in a video she was HIV-positive and infecting others — which she later told police wasn’t true. Brandi Yakeima Lasiter posted a roughly one-minute video to Facebook last week detailing her alleged sexual encounters with various people, claiming she had infected them with the rare disease that …

Yesterday the Democratic of the Congo (DRC) resumed publishing daily reports on the country’s ongoing Ebola outbreak, adding more details about the response in Goma and noting that 149 health workers have now been infected with the deadly virus. The disruption in daily reports came as the Ebola outbreak response leadership shifted from former minister …

NEW YORK (CNN) — Researchers have successfully eliminated HIV from the DNA of infected mice, a promising step toward a cure for the nearly 37 million people living with the virus. In a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications, researchers from Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center …

Tory leadership contender and ex-health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been accused of not fulfilling his promises to victims of the infected blood scandal. The widow of Mike Dorricott, who died after being diagnosed with terminal cancer linked to the hepatitis C he contracted from contaminated blood products, said Mr Hunt failed to come up with …