BEIJING--When Li’s 83-year-old father with diabetes started coughing and complaining of body aches last month, the Beijing ...

The gum is made from a bean plant and contains antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal properties. It’s being tested against HPV, influenza and other diseases.

Louisville’s Maricia Richardson grew up hearing that she didn’t need to get vaccinated. She didn’t consider herself “anti vax” — more like vaccine hesitant — and much of that resistance was rooted in ...

Andes hantavirus causes deadly lung failure, but its method of attack differs from other respiratory illnesses. The details ...

Louisville’s Maricia Richardson grew up hearing that she didn’t need to get vaccinated. She didn’t consider herself “anti vax ...

The fast-growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo came to the world’s attention only a little more than a ...

Virologists and public health specialists have warned about the pandemic threat for years. H5N1, a problem in chickens for decades, first infected humans in 1997, in an outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

Ever-growing influence of social media and AI means such ideas spreading at faster rates than before, experts say ...

First, it was Hantavirus, then Ebola in quick succession. A Hantavirus outbreak was reported to the World Health Organisation ...

The drug showed promising results in an international study involving nearly 2,400 participants, and the U.S. Food and Drug ...

In April 2026, a passenger boarded a Dutch cruise ship in Ushuaia, Argentina after a bird-watching trip. Ten days later, he died. The cause of his death, while initially unclear, was determined to be ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with virologist Dr. Thomas Geisbert about the vaccine used in the Ebola outbreak of 2014 and the challenges for developing a vaccine for this current health emergency.