A person in Texas has been diagnosed with bird flu, an infection tied to the recent discovery of the virus in dairy cows, health officials said on Monday. The patient is being treated with an antivira
As recent history proves, airborne respiratory infections are not to be trifled with. Now, a new sprayable coating applied to standard air filters might give us a leg up in the war against the pathoge
Humanity is facing a bizarre new pandemic threat, scientists have warned. Ancient viruses frozen in the Arctic permafrost could one day be released by Earth’s warming climate and unleash a major disea
A polar bear has been killed by bird flu as the highly contagious H5N1 virus spreads into the most remote parts of the planet. The death was confirmed in December by the Alaska Department of Environme
W hen the mule deer buck died in October, it perished in a place most humans would consider the middle of nowhere, miles from the nearest road. But its last breaths were not taken in an isolated corne
Dec 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert on Thursday to notify clinicians and health departments about a deadly type of the mpox virus spreadin
Public Health There's more danger to the pneumonia outbreaks than we're being told. Jessica Wildfire Dec 2, 2023 Rawpixel December 02 2023 1:11 AM 6 min read Share Email A dangerous strain of pneumoni
November 28, 2023, 2:01 PM In Beijing and other megacities in China, hospitals are overflowing with children suffering pneumonia or similar severe ailments. However, the Chinese government claims that
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Whether it begins next week, next year, or next decade, another pandemic is on its way. Researchers can’t predict precisely when or how the outbreak might begin. Some 1.6 million viruses are estimated
Unica Cardoso, 35, center in blue-purple headwrap, waits in line for malaria medication after testing positive for the disease at a health center in Nametil, Mozambique, in August. (Jahi Chikwendiu/Th
Published 25 February Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Michelle Roberts Digital health editor UK health experts are sharing details of their Covid-style plans against bird flu, i
Published 24 February Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The recent bird flu outbreak has been circling the globe since October 2021. By Kelly Ng BBC News An 11-year-ol
Health experts say a quality medical mask remains a highly effective line of defense against respiratory viruses By and Tara Parker-Pope December 7, 2022 at 4:28 p.m. EST With three highly contagious
A New Jersey resident infected with monkeypox died last month, the state Department of Health announced Monday in a statement. It’s the first monkeypox-related fatality in the state, officials noted.
KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan officials have reported 11 more cases of Ebola in the capital since Friday, a worrisome increase in infections just over a month after an outbreak was declared in a remote pa
The cases of Covid-19 are on the rise across the UK, millions of people are thought to be infected with the virus. Figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that almost 4% of
Eric Feigl-Ding is an epidemiologist and co-founder of the World Health Network. Kavita Patel is a physician and former director of policy for the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and P
Published 5 July 2022 Share page About sharing Image source, EPA By Beth Timmins Business reporter, BBC News British Airways has cancelled a further 1,500 flights, mostly for July. The wave of cancell
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See more headlines from our Coronavirus Updates Understanding the Summer Air Travel Mess Going into the Fourth of July weekend, with nearly 13 million people expected to fly on U.S. carriers, we look
After a recent trip to St. Louis, Ruth Peebles finally made it back home in Los Angeles. But by the time her plane touched down in Burbank, she had spent $800 on a one-way ticket after her original fl
I’ve been in the cybersecurity industry for about twelve years now, and I’ve been making a decent living from it for about four or five. (I struggled in obscurity for a long time, no one is an overnig
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Overseas airlines are having to cancel hundreds of flights as they grapple with coronavirus -related staffing shortages weeks after they ditched rules requiring passengers and staff to mask up in the
TOKYO — President Biden said Monday that he did not believe a quarantine to prevent the spread of monkeypox in the United States would be necessary, saying there are sufficient vaccine doses available
LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is set to hold an emergency meeting to discuss monkeypox on Friday, according to sources close to the U.N. agency. The committee due to meet is
Updated at 9:51 a.m. on May 20, 2022 Yesterday afternoon, I called the UCLA epidemiologist Anne Rimoin to ask about the European outbreak of monkeypox—a rare but potentially severe viral illness with
Published 20 May 2022 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Symptoms of monkeypox include a rash, fever, headache, muscle aches, backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills and
The first confirmed case of monkeypox in the United States this year recently travelled to Canada, health officials said Wednesday, as concern rises over the spread of the infectious virus in multiple
Monkeypox has now been spotted in Portugal and Spain , in what could be the first global outbreak of the rare disease. Spain is monitoring eight men who it believes are infected, with tests being carr
China’s financial hub of Shanghai says it will lock down the city in two stages to carry out COVID-19 testing over a nine-day period, after it reported a new daily record for asymptomatic infections.
Biden Administration Plans to Offer Second Booster Shots to Those 50 and Up After fraught discussions, officials decided that another shot might save thousands of lives if a new coronavirus wave hit b
Another Covid Surge May Be Coming. Are We Ready for It? “We’ve been wearing rose-colored glasses instead of correcting our vision,” one scientist said. An intensive care unit in Washington, D.C., this
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Over the past two years, the U.S. has experienced Covid waves similar to those in Europe — only several weeks later. Shoppers walk down London's busy Oxford Street in December. | Frank Augstein/AP Pho
HONG KONG — The three people who took their own lives on the same day last week in Hong Kong used different methods. One hanged herself with a cotton rope in the cubicle of a public toilet. The other