In recent news appearances, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing ...

Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden are among the nations the government approached to address the shortage brought on by a ...

In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead on residents’ ...

It's been five years since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. As SARS-CoV-2 shifts to endemic status, questions about its future evolution remain.

Viruses, especially respiratory ones like the flu or COVID-19, evolve quickly. When you catch a virus, your immune system ...

A year after bird flu was discovered in Texas dairy cows, the first case in a sheep has been identified in the U.K.

UKHSA has revealed the most dangerous pathogens for Britain as one scientist warns a measles-like virus would ‘pose a threat ...

ANSWER: Although most people think that asthma causes wheezing, cough is a very common symptom of asthma. You’ve named the ...

Bird flu has long been a top contender for starting the next pandemic. Between 2003 and 2023, there were 882 cases reported ...

Early animal studies show that a single vaccine could protect the recipient from different variants of the coronaviruses that cause COVID-19, the flu and the common cold. In addition to creating ...

The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human pandemic, was seven months, and Canada came in last, a new study has found.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of ...