The Ebola virus, Cordyceps fungi, and even the stomach flu have helped inspire some of the most gruesome infectious diseases seen on the screen.

Every fall, the leaves turn and flutter to the ground. Pumpkins are hollowed out and carved with the devilish grins of Jack-o'-lanterns; kids, young and old, dress up as ghosts, ghouls and goblins; ...

Ali Solomon is an illustrator from New York. She is the author of “I Love(ish) New York: Tales of City Life.” Scandal, Protest, Goofiness, and Grandeur at the U.S. Bicentennial This year marks the two ...

The new Netflix series stars Rachel Weisz as a professor whose lust for a younger colleague renews her lust for life itself—and drives her to alarming extremes. The Oscar nominee, who plays a hoodoo ...

With $30 million in funding from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Merck & Co. is bringing together several global vaccine makers to develop an updated Ebola vaccine to ...

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Originally starting out airing reruns of previous animated shows and movies, Cartoon Network quickly became a leading platform for original animated TV programming. As the cable channel expanded its ...

EXCLUSIVE: L.A. publisher Gungnir is launching an animation studio that will feed an in-house YouTube channel that planned as “the Cartoon Network of the digital era.” Gungnir Animation Studio will ...

KINSHASA, Congo — Congo on Monday announced the end of an Ebola outbreak that killed 43 people in one of the country’s southern provinces, with authorities saying no new confirmed cases had been ...

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday declared an end to the latest outbreak of Ebola, which has caused at least 34 deaths since August. The virus, which is often fatal ...