Mosquitoes that transmit La Crosse virus disease live in wooded areas in the U.S., mainly in the Upper Midwest, Mid-Atlantic ...

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

Seth Donoughe, a research scientist at SecureBio and a co-author of the paper, says that the results make him a “little ...

The White House rolled out a new COVID.gov website showing the “true origins" of the coronavirus after Democrats and the ...

Updates to Covid.gov lay out the president’s view the deadly virus originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

A 1-year-old boy in Ingham County now has the measles, after exposure to a 12-month-old girl who also has the highly ...

National health officials added Tennessee to a growing list of states with an official measles outbreak on Thursday.The ...

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

Plant breeding plays a vital role in ensuring global food security by increasing crop yields, improving nutritional quality ...

Feed stores are selling out of baby chickens. But there are downsides to having a backyard flock, such as cost and potential ...

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