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Mosquito Virus Nearly Kills NC Boy

There's West Nile and Zika, but have you heard of the La Crosse virus? An 11-year-old North Carolina boy spent two weeks in a coma after getting it from a mosquito.

Is This The Cure To Cancer??

A biomedical company in Boston may have discovered a way to cure cancer, HIV and other serious diseases using mRNA therapy.

What's Up With The Cupping?

Olympic athletes like Michael Phelps are putting 'cupping' and other alternative medicines in the spotlight, but how effective are they and how do they work?

Health Officials Give Update On Whitewater Center

CHARLOTTE, NC-- The amoeba infected water from the Whitewater Center has been cleaned and discharged. Now County Commissioners want to know what's next. Health officials gave Commissioners an update tonight. The commission didn't vote…

A New Threat In Fight Against Overdoses: Elephant Sedative

A drug used to sedate elephants and other large animals, 100 times as potent as the fentanyl already escalating the country's heroin troubles, is suspected in spates of overdoses in several states, where authorities say they've found it mixed with or passed off as heroin.

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