The ongoing government shutdown has stopped respiratory virus surveillance, affecting important federal reports on the flu, COVID-19 and RSV. These reports have not been updated in a month, even as ...

Days after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Georgia’s number of West Nile virus cases had tripled in a week, the Fulton County government reported locally trapped ...

Research at Boston University that involved testing a lab-made hybrid version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is garnering heated headlines alleging the scientists involved could have unleashed a new pathogen ...

ATLANTA – A government scientist cleaning out an old storage room at a research center near Washington made a startling discovery last week – decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in ...

A Chinese virologist who sounded the alarm in early 2020 about where the coronavirus came from said Monday the U.S. has reached a "milestone achievement" after a classified intelligence report from ...

The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors declared a local emergency on Tuesday due to a virus that threatens to decimate tomato crops. A small insect known as the beet leafhopper spreads the beet ...

Reassuring new government research finds the pasteurization process widely used in the industry effectively kills all bird flu virus in milk. HealthDay News — As bird flu continues to spread among US ...

This is a guest essay for Healthbeat. Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. Experts are growing increasingly worried that bird flu – avian influenza ...

TEXARKANA, Ark. -- A recently deployed computer virus that crippled Miller County is gradually being removed from the government devices. County Judge Cathy Harrison said Sunday that internet ...