The World Health Organization (WHO) today reduced the number of reported hantavirus cases from the Dutch cruise ship MV ...

Many studies show that COVID-19 vaccination reduces the risk of severe disease, hospitalization, and death. There is less evidence about whether COVID-19 shots make people less contagious. New ...

While most respondents to a survey of US backyard flock owners had heard of avian influenza, about one third didn’t know the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed 51 new measles cases in a nationwide outbreak that has ...

The number of people sickened by three multistate outbreaks of the Salmonella bacterium has rocketed to 184. The Centers for ...

A COVID-19 outbreak in a residential building in Spain during the early months of the pandemic likely spread through shared ...

Today in Science, a study shows that unflagged, factual but misleading Facebook posts reduced the intent to receive the COVID-19 vaccine 46 times more than did false posts flagged by fact-checkers as ...

Novavax today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved full licensure for its COVID-19 vaccine, Nuvaxovid, which had been used since July 2022 under an emergency use ...

A study published earlier this week in Nature Communications using claims data from the US Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System finds protection from the 2024-25 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was 68%, 57 ...

Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy ...

New research indicates administration of the antibiotic azithromycin late in pregnancy may be tied to a lower risk of ...

The World Health Organization's (WHO’s) annual health statistics report paints a sobering picture. Too many people are dying ...