Right now, Oklahoma is at a widespread high risk for COVID-19 with more cases of the virus in the last month than both the Flu and RSV combined.

The World Health Organization retired the name "monkeypox" in favor of mpox — since the virus is spread by rodents and small ...

China's top lawmakers on Friday passed a bill to quicken public health emergency responses by empowering individuals and ...

A: We are going to have more pandemics in the future and, as the book’s title suggests, they could be a lot worse than the one we just had. One of the motivations of writing this book was to provide a ...

Dr. Peter Daszak and colleagues recently published a study on coronaviruses on pig farms in China and Southeast Asia and the threat posed by potential zoonotic spillover events into dense human ...

Earlier this month, the Trump administration said it was terminating $500 million in mRNA vaccine research and shifting its focus to other approaches, including a previously announced “whole-virus” ...

DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- The city of Naperville is taking action after mosquitoes there tested positive for West Nile Virus. The traps were on Oleson Drive and Jackson Avenue. Crews have sprayed ...

One of two University of Michigan scholars from China accused of smuggling biological material into the United States pleaded no contest Tuesday, federal officials said. Chengxuan Han pleaded no ...

West Nile virus has infected a person from Oakland County, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said Aug. 18. This is the fourth confirmed human case of West Nile virus in Michigan in ...

Chikungunya, which can disable victims for years, is spreading rapidly, including in China, France and other places that have not seen major outbreaks before. By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen, who ...

Covid-19 seems to accelerate the ageing of blood vessels, but perhaps only among women. The infection has previously been linked to cardiovascular complications, like heart disease, but how it has ...

Early in the pandemic, most research, including our own, focused on designing drugs that could block the virus's spike protein. This was a logical first step, but as we've seen, the virus is a moving ...