KATHMANDU: Bird flu has been brought under control in seven districts, while the disease remains active in four others, according to the Department of Livestock Services. The department said the ...

A mother’s influenza infection drives her placenta into full antiviral defense. That defense appears to come at a cost to the ...

The ongoing Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda has now killed 61 people, with 359 confirmed cases. The Bundibugyo strain of the virus has a fatality rate of ...

Public health specialists told ABC News the best way for people to protect themselves against these viruses is to get vaccinated. The CDC currently recommends that people aged 6 months and older ...

Public health serves us best when we can trust the CDC is counting what happened, not deciding to count what Secretary ...

A roundup of six recent studies explores an advanced breast cancer drug combination, atropine for childhood myopia, gene ...

Viruses come in two major flavors—not chocolate and vanilla, quips Harvard Medical School structural biologist Stephen ...

A UBC study finds mutations from Canada’s first human H5N1 case weakened the virus’s grip on human cells, but scientists urge ...

A similarity between the viruses behind the flu and HIV is now the subject of a research effort at Michigan State University that could help develop effective vaccines for both of them.

How do we know when an animal virus might pose a risk to humans? Canada confirmed a human case of H5N1 avian influenza (often called “bird flu”) in 2024, the first ever known to have been acquired in ...

CANANDAIGUA — In the latest episode of Thompson Health’s podcast, “Thompson On-Air,” host Dave Carro sits down with Stacey Gibbs, the system’s director of infection prevention, and Daniel Bentz, the ...