Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, ...

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Observational studies are critical tools in clinical research and public health response, but challenges arise in ensuring ...

The narrative is false that the COVID vaccine was rushed and not properly tested. It and other vaccines are safe and ...

A study of fruit flies shows some species are highly susceptible to a wide range of viruses. The paper, published in the ...

However, this does not mean mosquitoes are just passive virus carriers. An arbovirus can change how infected mosquitoes behave or reproduce. For example, viruses can manipulate mosquitoes in two ways: ...

The source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, remains elusive. With "low confidence," some federal agencies favor the theory that it originated in and leaked from a Chinese laboratory ...

Typical household cleaners like hand sanitizer or wipes don't kill germs from norovirus. Here's what you can use instead.

For example, people in nursing homes, schools and prisons – essentially any circumstance where people are together for a long period of time. Another place where the virus can spread is cruise ...

For example, the virus currently prefers to bind to a type of receptor on bird cells and some cow cells that is not found widely on human cells. But a single mutation in the virus’s RNA could ...