Climate change has already begun to alter the environment in many ways, but scientists are also vigilantly watching for the ...

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

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

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

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

The fairly recent detection of H5N1 avian flu in dairy cattle, however, raises questions about whether the same process can ...

The rash generally appears three to five days after the first symptoms, beginning as flat red spots on the face and then ...

The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect health. By Carl Zimmer The viruses we know best are the ones that make us ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am on a low-sodium diet by choice. I do not add salt to anything, except when I bake for others. I have ...