A long-running debate in vaccine design revolves around whether a vaccine should be optimized to prevent the virus from ...

In a new study, bats lap up vaccine-laced saline or chow down on vaccine-carrying mosquitoes. Will that have any impact on the flying mammal's immune system?

A man who opened fire in a classroom at Virginia’s Old Dominion University was granted an early release from federal prison ...

Evidence suggests reactivations of the varicella-zoster virus may accelerate aging and raise dementia risk. Now scientists want to know if vaccines and antivirals could help protect the brain.

As today's researchers face a tectonic shift in the foundations of global health, it is instructive to consider another time when international health research had to be re-established on a new ...

One of the hottest tickets in Rome these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel.

Since 1999, when Nipah virus was first identified in Malaysia, it has repeatedly emerged in south and southeast Asia, quietly exploiting ecological and social susceptibilities. The danger of Nipah ...

I asked Gemini AI to represent New Zealand's 'ninth wave' of Covid and whether it was more of a ripple. This was its (strange) creation. Photo: Google Gemini AI Protecting ourselves against Covid ...

The “freedom” theme echoes one of the major concerns of the director of the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, who feels he suffered ...

Large-scale evolutionary analysis shows most zoonotic viruses emerge without prior adaptation, while passing through a laboratory leaves detectable genetic signatures, offering a new tool to interpret ...

In outpatient care, RSV infections in children younger than 2 years present with distinct clinical features and greater ...