In a Policy Forum, Erin Sorrell and colleagues – a coalition of virologists, veterinarians, and health security experts – ...

So far this year, influenza cases are nearly 20 per cent higher than they were last year, and 2,800 cases were recorded in ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the United States, made a weird suggestion back in March that bird flu should be allowed to run rampant in chickens and the infected ...

At first, the monovalent influenza A (H5N8) vaccine will be tested in two doses, 21 days apart, in adults aged 18–59.

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The so-called "big, beautiful bill" will lead to millions of fewer people having health coverage in the United States. It will make the country less prepared to detect and respond to a future pandemic ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it ...

Biosafety level (BSL)-3 facilities exist in a diffuse regulatory environment, where requirements depend on factors such as the kinds of pathogens under study, the type of research being conducted, and ...

A contagious new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is now dominant in the United States, CDC data show. What to know about symptoms and vaccines.

The inaccurate rumours refer to a study looking at excess deaths during the pandemic in the German city of Frankfurt am Main.

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

A 36-year-old woman, admitted to intensive care, is the latest in a string of new infections in the last 10 days ...