On January 19, 1986, the world became aware of what is widely regarded as the first major computer virus to spread globally: Brain. While earlier experimental self-replicating programs had existed, ...

New York health officials have confirmed the first-ever locally acquired case of chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne illness linked to tropical regions. The New York Department of Health in October ...

A Madison County resident has been hospitalized with the county’s first-ever human infection of EEE, an extremely rare, but deadly, virus. It’s the first Central New York case of EEE since a Salina ...