What COVID-19 taught us about protecting kids in future pandemics
Five years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, infectious disease experts continue to draw on its lessons for future disasters.
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Five years after the pandemic, the world is poorly prepared for another one
In Europe, ten people died from measles in 2024, and the US has had several major outbreaks. Bird flu has affected dairy herds in 17 US states from North Carolina to California and has just been reported in cats. So far, ...
Mar 11, 2025
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As the measles outbreak grows in Texas, what makes the virus so contagious?
Amid the outbreak of measles in West Texas, there's a question of how contagious the disease is—and whether it will spread in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Mar 10, 2025
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The COVID 'contrarians' are in power, some believe
In October, Stanford University professor Jay Bhattacharya hosted a conference on the lessons of COVID-19 in order "to do better in the next pandemic." He invited scholars, journalists, and policy wonks who, like him, have ...
Feb 25, 2025
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Flu is on the rise in Florida—and here's what doctors say
People with flu-like symptoms are pouring into Miami-Dade and Broward urgent care and ERs as infections across the country reach levels not seen in a decade. And for the first time since the start of the pandemic in 2020, ...
Feb 24, 2025
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RSV vaccine program for older people in Scotland shows 62% drop in hospitalizations
A vaccination program has cut hospital admissions for a respiratory virus among older people in Scotland by nearly two-thirds.
Feb 17, 2025
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Virus disinformation drives anti-China sentiment, lockdown fears
A deluge of disinformation about a flu-like virus called HMPV is stoking anti-China sentiment across Asia and spurring unfounded concerns of renewed lockdowns, despite experts dismissing comparisons with the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Feb 11, 2025
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Fifteen cases of measles reported in small West Texas county with high rate of vaccine exemptions
Fifteen measles cases—mostly in school-aged children—have been confirmed in a small county in West Texas with one of the highest rates of vaccine exemptions in the state.
Feb 11, 2025
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Influenza A viruses adapt shape in response to environmental pressures, study reveals
Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape—to become either spheres or larger filaments—to favor their ability to infect cells depending on environmental conditions, according to a new study from National ...
Feb 10, 2025
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Nasal COVID-19 vaccine to enter US clinical trials
A nasal vaccine for COVID-19—based on technology developed at Washington University in St. Louis—is poised to enter a phase 1 clinical trial in the U.S. after an investigational new drug application from Ocugen, Inc. was ...
Feb 5, 2025
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