A teenager in Canada, hospitalized with the country's first case of the H5N1 bird flu, is in critical condition. Health ...

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Researchers at the World Health Organization have identified 17 pathogens most in need of new or improved vaccines, including threats like HIV, malaria, and influenza.

The government has issued a warning to bird owners after an outbreak of a virus in the UK. The Department of Environment, ...

Dr Burke explains: “Norovirus is an extremely contagious virus that spreads through contact and can cause sickness and ...

Pigs represent a particular concern for the spread of bird flu because they can become co-infected with bird and human viruses, which could swap genes to form a new, more dangerous virus that can ...

Is the Australian flu dangerous for the brain? This new flu variant, along with RSV, Covid, and pneumococcal pneumonia, are ...

H5N1 has the potential to be an extremely dangerous virus for many different animals, and combining its genes with a human virus could make it much more dangerous to us. The risks of that ...

In 1952, polio was everywhere: killing or paralyzing roughly half a million people annually. Yet just 10 years later, paralytic polio cases in the US dropped by 96% and we were on track to ...

Could the "Wetland virus" be the next global health threat? Transmitted by ticks, this virus is raising concerns. First ...

KFF Health News — Jason Farned and his team at the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District had spent years preparing for the likely arrival of dengue, a dangerous virus typically ...

H5N1 has the potential to be an extremely dangerous virus for many different animals, and combining its genes with a human virus could make it much more dangerous to us. The risks of that ...