FLiRT, short for Flu-like Respiratory Tract, is a recently detected strain of the COVID-19 virus that is circulating within ...

As has often been the case throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC is implementing this policy shift during a lull ...

A recent review highlights the need for innovative influenza vaccines that combine T-cell and antibody responses to enhance ...

In early April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notified the public that an individual in Texas had ...

According to the C.D.C., the risk to public health remains low. But the country’s initial approach has had an unsettling ...

Many experts believe it is only a matter of time before “Disease X” arrives, and that it is likely to be 20 times more lethal than Covid-19. “Disease X” refers to a currently unknown infectious but ...

The discovery of fragments of avian flu virus in milk sold in U.S. stores, including in about 20% of samples in initial ...

Robin Cook, who celebrates his 84th birthday on May 4 is set to release his latest medical thriller, Bellevue, later this year.

The passing of leprosy between squirrels and humans is one of the earliest known cases of a disease moving between people and ...

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

though some experts suspect it could cause illness more severe than Covid. The CDC has said that H5N1 has sometimes caused severe illness and death in other countries, and other avian flu strains have ...

Should we be concerned? Particularly since Trump is polling so well after he totally botched our response to Covid? The Spanish flu of 1918–1920 had a fatality rate of 2.5 percent. Ebola, the disease ...