A lab worker’s unexplained pneumonia death in Russia's Siberia has sparked pandemic fears, but authorities have not confirmed ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns that while ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. As the bird flu situation develops in the U.S., scientists told ...

A new study sheds light on one of the great enigmas of microbiology: why only certain strains of common bacteria become pandemic pathogens. The work, published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the early days of Covid-19, when infectious disease experts were talking about a ...

More than 100 passengers aboard a luxury cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak have now been evacuated, while health officials across several countries monitor passengers and close contacts for ...

David Lazer ran into a fellow Northeastern University professor Alessandro Vespignani. It was February 2020. One month before the COVID-19 shutdowns. "I said, 'Tell me: How bad is it going to be?'" ...

Dr Anthony Fauci, a former top United States public health official, has declined to answer questions at a Republican-led Senate committee hearing into the origins of COVID-19 and the handling of the ...

During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, youth mental health problems have increased manifold. The contribution of school closures to this problem has been heavily debated but is ...

A nationwide Norwegian registry study found that inhaled corticosteroid prescriptions in children collapsed during COVID-19 lockdowns, rebounded with returning infections, and varied more than ...