The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

RI's restaurant scene has hard a hard year, with some saying they've seen more closures in the last 12 months than ever.

Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast have discovered a cutting-edge way to track both human and avian flu variants using wastewater.

Ventilation shutdown plus (VSD+) is an incredibly inhumane method of killing lots of animals at once by shutting off the air supply and driving up temperatures, causing organ failure and suffocation.

Dragging the weighted black bait box out from the brush with his boots, Ryan Campbell wiped a few beads of sweat from his ...

Doctors warn of serious health risks from inhaling dried pigeon droppings, urging better municipal handling and public ...

The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s ...

Antibiotics are one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medical science—but these lifesaving tools have a dark side. Their persistent use can produce "superbugs"—drug-resistant microbes that ...

From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in ...

Antibiotics are one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medical science — but these lifesaving tools have a dark side.Their persistent use can ...

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