Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images Last week, a child who was hospitalized with measles in Texas died, state health officials said. It marks the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The _Aedes_ mosquito is a vector of several viral diseases, including eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, and West Nile fever.

On Monday, director general of the World Health Organization Dr. Margaret Chan declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus to be an international public health emergency. Chan made a particular point of ...

The horrors of Covid-19 pandemic are still fresh in our minds, even though a few years have passed ever since. One lesson which the world has learnt from the 2020-2021 pandemic is that precaution is ...

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that a Louisiana resident had been hospitalized with the first severe case of avian influenza — also known as “bird ...

Learn how scientists identified genetic clues that distinguish natural viral spillovers from lab-handled viruses — and why one historical outbreak of 1977 surprised them. There has been much debate, ...

In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, comparable to a mechanism in eukaryotic cells. The finding challenges the dogma ...

Pilar Pérez Romero is affiliated with the spin-off company Vaxdyn SL as a founding partner. Lee Rafuse Haines does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...