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This undated image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Feb. 4, 2015 shows an electron microscope image of a measles virus particle, center. Measles is considered one of the most infectious diseases known. The virus is spread through the air when someone infected coughs or sneezes. (AP Photo/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cynthia Goldsmith) In the midst of a 27-year high for measles cases in the U.S., health officials in Northern Virginia are warning people that that they may have been exposed to a person with measles. The individual visited multiple locations this past...

Gal Gadot donned her fake superhero outfit to do some real-world heroics over the weekend. The actress sported her costume from “Wonder Woman” to visit a children’s hospital. The actress, 33, arrived to cheer up some of the kids being treated at Inova Children’s Hospital in Annadale, Va., according to Variety. The actress appeared in the 2016 hit “Wonder Woman” for the DC comics extended universe (DCEU). She will appear again in “Wonder Woman 1984.”

FAIRFAX -- Police are searching for an armed prisoner who escaped from Inova Fairfax Hospital around 4 a.m. Police say the suspect is a black man named Wossen Assaye. He's 6 feet tall, 170 pounds, wearing only a hospital gown with no shoes. He is on the run in a stolen silver Toyota Camry with front-end damage, the police said in a Tweet. The license plate on the car has Virginia tags and number XZP-8153. He may be with his girlfriend. Assaye - transported to Inova Fairfax from the Alexandria jail overnight - managed to overpower the two private security...

Family Shattered by Blood Mix-Up Sterling Patient Died After Error by Inova Fairfax Technician By Avram Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 8, 2003; Page B01 Tawnya Brown sat in her hospital bed and cried, dreading the moment she had hoped would never come. Soon she would undergo surgery to repair damage from an inflammatory bowel disease, which meant wearing a colostomy bag for three months while she healed. That wasn't how she wanted to live in the Sterling townhouse she shared with her 8-year-old daughter and husband, who can't work full time because of a heart condition. "I...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - A woman who swapped beds with another patient in their hospital room so she could be nearer the window died after receiving the wrong type of blood during surgery. In preparation for the surgery last month, a technician at Inova Fairfax Hospital mistakenly took a blood sample from the woman's roommate, hospital officials said. Hospital spokeswoman Beth Visioli said Friday that the woman had switched beds, but said the death was the result of human error by a hospital employee. The technician did not follow the hospital's established procedures for identifying patients, which requires examining each...