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?'" ...

The world has better tools to spot and respond to outbreaks, but weak health systems and unequal access to medicines and ...

Hantavirus, a rare but dangerous virus carried by rodents, has killed three people and infected at least eight amid an ongoing outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, prompting concerns about ...

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 ...