Nepal's government on Thursday ordered health workers to cull half a million chickens to combat a major bird flu outbreak on the outskirts of the capital Kathmandu.
Aug 15, 2013
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The current 2017-18 flu season is a bad one. Hospitalization rates are now higher than in recent years at the same point, and infection rates are still rising. The best line of defense is the seasonal influenza vaccine. But ...
Feb 16, 2018
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It's tempting to treat little skin bumps on your own, but that delays proper diagnosis and treatment that may work better, federal regulators cautioned.
Jun 5, 2023
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Peste des petits ruminants is a highly contagious disease found in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and was recently detected in Bulgaria on the border with Turkey. This highly contagious viral disease affects almost a billion ...
Jul 31, 2018
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China moved swiftly Monday to try to control a new outbreak of the coronavirus after 36 more cases were confirmed in Beijing.
Jun 15, 2020
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How do the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus crisis impact the economy? What measures are suitable to minimize the number of people infected and killed by SARS-CoV-2? And how are these two dynamics related? Academics ...
Jul 29, 2020
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Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.
Jun 4, 2024
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The WHO's chief said Monday that all hypotheses on the COVID-19 pandemic's origins remained open and needed further study, based on international experts' report on their mission to Wuhan.
Mar 29, 2021
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Recent outbreaks of bird flu—in US dairy herds, poultry farms in Australia and elsewhere, and isolated cases in humans—have raised the issue of food safety.
Jun 5, 2024
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