More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

The UK Health Security Agency identified four virus families—some deadlier than COVID-19—with high pandemic potential. One, ...

The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections ...

In December, 2021, all 194 Member States of WHO decided to establish the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) to draft and negotiate a convention, agreement, or other international instrument on ...

Virginia Tech researchers seek to understand the environmental factors that influence the distribution of hantavirus in rodent populations across the United States.

This isn’t just an animal health crisis — it’s a risk to public health. When animals consume foods containing live virus, ...

The "next pandemic" is not "theoretical" but an "epidemiological certainty," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings has won U.S. Food and Drug Administration fast-track designation for its ARCT-2304 pandemic flu vaccine candidate.

In February 2024, dairy farmers in Texas began noticing their cows were producing less milk and that the milk was discoloured ...

Life expectancy only increased by roughly one year between 2021 and 2022. That's not enough to make up for the 2.4-year drop ...