The global eradication of smallpox more than 40 years ago was one of the greatest achievements in public health history, vanquishing a cause of death, blindness and disfigurement that had plagued ...

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has awarded a $6 million grant to USC investigators pioneering a new first ...

As it mutates, the bird flu has seemingly been able to infect other bird species, pets, other kinds of animals and, on rare ...

It's flu season right now, and the U.S. is in the midst of a wave that's straining hospitals. But not all influenza is the ...

A deadly virus closely related to a family of infections with mortality rates approaching 75 percent has made it to North ...

Towana Looney of Alabama is 'going strong and feeling great' after a pig kidney transplant. No one has lived longer with an ...

The deep freeze and snowy conditions that ushered in 2025 may have helped fuel what the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Vaccines do not cause autism. You’ve almost certainly read that before — but often without a full explanation of how we know ...

Another late-2024 study found that viral shedding, the expulsion of viral particles, in the air related to transmissibility ...

Wisconsin is among 10 states to report human cases of the H5N1 virus so far, with more than half reported in California.

There was a snow goose die-off due to HPAI at the beginning of January at flooded quarries in Lower Nazareth Township in ...

Confronting a bird flu outbreak in nature presents unique challenges, as infected animals leave a landscape contaminated, Pa.