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Cornell researcher Raina Plowright and her team observed that when bats in Australia lost access to their habitat and natural ...

As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided.

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A CDC program tests wastewater from airplanes, looking for pathogens that may have hitched a ride with passengers on long-haul international flights.

We conducted a series of experiments to investigate how climate change affects sewage-associated viruses, and the risks they ...

A newly developed laboratory tool can, within hours, help to identify specific viruses which can be used to destroy variants ...

More than 300 cases of measles, one of the most contagious viruses in the world, have now been confirmed across more than a ...

Measles is unlike other childhood viruses. In severe cases, it can cause pneumonia. About 1 in 1,000 patients develops ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local ...

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