Experts clarify the true symptoms of the NB.1.8.1 COVID-19 variant amid circulating misinformation. Read more at straitstimes ...

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Thursday recommended updating this fall’s Covid shots to target the XFG ...

As a new COVID-19 variant takes over in the U.S., guidance surrounding vaccines has become increasingly confusing. Changes in vaccination guidelines, ever-evolving variants and strains, along with ...

The World Health Organization declared an Ebola outbreak in Africa a "public health emergency of international concern," but ...

A new COVID variant – dubbed Cicada – is being monitored by the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization. First detected in 2024 in South Africa, Cicada, officially known as ...

Six years after COVID-19 first made headlines, an antiviral pill has finally been shown to stop users from developing the disease after being exposed to the virus. The drug, called ensitrelvir, was ...

The “cicada” SARS-CoV-2 variant, which earned its nickname after staying relatively dormant following its discovery in 2024, has accounted for a small proportion of COVID-19 cases since the CDC began ...

The World Health Organization declared the Ebola disease outbreak caused by a rare virus in Congo and neighboring Uganda a ...

The deadly cruise ship outbreak of hantavirus, a rare, rodent-borne illness, may have evoked some memories of the early days of COVID-19 — but infectious disease specialists and public health ...

Americans who have been quarantining in Nebraska for weeks after they were exposed to a contagious and deadly strain of hantavirus have said the government has offered them a deal that would allow ...