As viral vaccines are increasingly used to meet global health needs, the pharmaceutical industry is manufacturing larger ...

The pandemic accelerated economic disparity, revealing a disturbing acceptance of mass death. Did we learn nothing?

Measles is caused by a highly contagious virus that’s airborne and spreads easily when an infected person breathes, sneezes ...

Five years after the WHO declared COVID to be a pandemic, questions remain including how many people have died.

The man’s case didn’t give rise to any widespread variant, but it gave Gupta, with his HIV evolution background, the idea ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued an urgent warning over the virus, with more than 125,000 cases reported ...

A century ago, measles was killing a thousand people in the U.S. every year. By 2000, vaccines had all but eliminated the ...

John Roehrig died March 8 after a battle with ALS. During his career, he was on the front lines of the U.S. response to West Nile virus.

As transmissible as this virus was, it still didn’t have an easy way to infect humans. Smallpox, the 1918 flu virus, and SARS-CoV-2 could all bind to cells in our mouths, noses, and throats ...

Marc Johnson of the University of Missouri explains why wastewater surveillance became a crucial tool in tracking COVID outbreaks.

SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving the ability to evade the immune system about twice as fast as the fastest-evolving flu virus. It averages more than a dozen significant changes every year.