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When a virus that once seemed confined to animals starts turning up in both people and their pets, the line between household safety and global health threat suddenly looks thin. Across laboratories ...

A sequencing study conducted in Uganda reveals that one in four people has been exposed to a deadly hemorrhagic virus.

A viral infection can trigger a neurological disease similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in mice with a specific ...

Respiratory infections are the leading causes of hospitalizations, ED visits and mortality in children in the United States ...

Scientists in Bangladesh discovered a new bat-borne virus called PRV in five patients who initially appeared to have Nipah ...

Learn how antibiotic resistance and superbugs are making common infections harder to treat, why drug resistant bacteria are a ...

A growing body of research suggests that everything from the shape of your lungs to how you enunciate your Ts and Ks could make you a flu superspreader.

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