Brood XIV, one of the largest swarms of periodical cicadas, is set to rise from the ground for the first time in 17 years.

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has issued a bird flu warning after 19 birds were found to have died from the disease, and the H5N1 variant has been found on both sides of the Irish border ...

They found that this strain, H2N2, was unlike any flu that humans were known to have encountered. When it reached the United States, no one would be immune. Hilleman moved quickly to alert the ...

including the United States. Hence it became known as “Spanish flu.” By June influenza reached from Algeria to New Zealand. Still, a 1927 study concluded, “In many parts of the world the ...

This was also the first year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that deaths from flu surpassed deaths from COVID.

This year's flu season has become Washington state's deadliest in nearly a decade, totaling at least 388 deaths so far.

Washington state recorded 388 influenza-related deaths between late 2024 and early 2025. Here’s why this winter’s flu season was so severe.

indicating visibility across several northern states. A visibility map shared by NOAA shows areas within a red view line where the aurora could potentially appear. So there may be some aurora ...

This comes as a map detailing the cases of bird flu detected in wild birds across Ireland following surveillance testing can be viewed here. While the virus currently poses a low risk to humans ...

Health experts fear the virus will take hold in other U.S. communities with low vaccination rates and that the spread could ...

United Statescategory US Defense Secretary Hegseth's chief of staff to leave role in coming days, Politico reports April 18, 2025 United Statescategory US judge halts Trump plan for rapid ...