More than 20 years ago military public health scientists warned that service members had higher rates of certain sexually transmitted diseases, known as STDs, than U.S. civilians. The military’s ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida’s first sexually-transmitted Zika virus case involves a Polk County resident, the governor’s office said on Wednesday. The governor’s office also said the person who ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Men should be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted wart virus to protect them against a type of mouth and throat cancer, U.S. researchers said on Monday. They said the rate ...

LOS ANGELES -- A new vaccine aimed at halting the spread of a common sexually transmitted virus that can lead to cervical cancer should eventually be given to both sexes, doctors said Monday. The ...

Discovering that hepatitis E virus is associated with sperm in pigs suggests the virus may be both sexually transmitted and linked to male infertility, according to a new study. Hepatitis E (HEV) is ...

Those of us over a certain age likely don’t spend much time thinking about the human papilloma virus (HPV). Despite the fact that the sexually transmitted virus is estimated to infect 4 out of every 5 ...

Dallas County Health and Human Services said it received confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It said the patient was infected after having sexual contact with a person ...

PARIS (AP) – A high-ranking French health official says a first case of sexually transmitted Zika virus has been diagnosed in France on a non-pregnant woman. Francois Bourdillon, the director general ...

In some cases, mononucleosis, or mono, can be a sexually transmitted infection (STI). However, this is not the most common way that it spreads. Usually, the cause is contact with saliva. People who ...

As the virus proliferates within and between patients, it rapidly accumulates mutations, especially in regions of the envelope gene targetted by the host’s immune system. Analyses of those changes ...

Cold sores, also known as oral herpes, can pass through sexual contact. However, they are not technically a sexually transmitted infection (STI), as people most often acquire cold sores through ...