Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him — and the world — in the face. The ...

But the shingles studies published in 2024, along with a host of new papers, add weight to an alternative decades-old ...

As the United States battles new strains of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, AKA bird flu, the State of Mississippi has now reported the ...

A CDC program tests wastewater from airplanes, looking for pathogens that may have hitched a ride with passengers on long-haul international flights.

The measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico is now close to 300 cases. Most are unvaccinated children. People usually ...

The Zika virus builds tiny tunnels, called tunneling nanotubes, to stealthily transport material needed to infect nearby ...

Lower-security labs are used for studying infectious agents that either don’t cause disease in people or pose only moderate ...

Measles is unlike other childhood viruses. In severe cases, it can cause pneumonia. About 1 in 1,000 patients develops ...

Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are ...

WE must act now to stop a bird flu pandemic and “save lives,” experts warn. The H5N1 strain has already spread from birds to ...

A newly developed laboratory tool can, within hours, help to identify specific viruses which can be used to destroy variants of the dangerous pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus.