Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season — many of them so sudden that families are ...

A virus that can cause a polio-like illness among children has been found in Bay Area wastewater as influenza cases spike.

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

The mammalian brain is known to produce mental representations of the spatial environment, known as cognitive maps, that help ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections ...

The Tokyo metropolitan government on Sept. 21 issued its first influenza health alert in September since 2009, a day after similar warnings were announced in neighboring Saitama and Chiba prefectures.

Apr. 18, 2025 — A team led by researchers say public ignorance and apathy towards bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI) could pose a serious obstacle to containing the virus and ...

Its purpose being to support pandemic preparedness for influenza and other infectious disease threats, this is the first award from BARDA – part of the US Department of Health and Human Services ...

Influenza causes 140,000 to 710,000 hospitalisations and 12,000 to 52,000 deaths in the US every year, as well as economic losses of around $25 billion a year, according to Pfizer.

Apr. 18, 2025 — For adults over the age of 65, higher levels of both insomnia symptoms and sleep medication use were associated with higher risk of disability a year later, according to a new ...