It’s also difficult to know how virulent the disease would be, though some experts suspect it could cause illness more severe ...

The dominant variant, KP.2, is part of this family of variants called “FLiRT.” In recent weeks, it took over the dominant ...

The H5N1 “bird flu” is ripping across America, decimating bird flocks and even infecting a few humans and other mammals.

The first signs that H5N1 avian flu was starting to spread from person to person would trigger a race to produce massive ...

In the first half of 2023, COVID-19 killed 42,670 people in the United States, while the flu killed about half that amount.

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Scientists are calling for public health agencies to pay attention to key issues from the COVID-19 pandemic as they mitigate ...

Zeynep Tufekci studied the U.S. response to Covid. Now she’s concerned about the nation’s response to bird flu.

In a retrospective cohort study, researchers used health care claims data to compare subsequent neurologic diagnoses in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 with those hospitalized with influenza.

Federal agencies with competing interests are slowing the country’s ability to track and control an outbreak of highly ...