Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

The emerging technology offers an alternative to conventional UVC light, which is used to sanitize surfaces but can harm the ...

You may have heard the term H3N2 in the news or read about it online. But chances are you don't know much about what it is and how it's different from other types of flu. Adults who were around in ...

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In a nutshell, food poisoning and norovirus both cause severe gastrointestinal symptoms, but norovirus (like most communicable viral diseases) typically leads to flu-like symptoms. On the other hand, ...

A research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has used advanced computational modeling to study how the H5N1 bird flu virus interacts with the immune system. Their findings show ...

In an interview with Fox News this week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. proposed a novel fix to the nation’s bird flu epidemic: Let the virus spread. “They should consider ...

A new bird flu outbreak has been confirmed as the virus continues to spread across the US. The deadly H7N9 strain was detected on a poultry farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, last week, for the first ...

Bird flu continues to spread in the U.S., infecting thousands of wild birds and poultry while posing an increasing threat to humans. Since the outbreak among U.S. livestock was first detected in ...

Bird flu “is adapting to mammals, and it continues to show new tricks,” Nelson tells The Verge. The virus is spreading widely in domestic and wild animals, while exact transmission routes ...

(Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Images) Bird flu is at a dangerous point in the United States: Nearly 167 million birds have been impacted by the H5N1 strain since 2022, and 70 people have been ...

NL Health Services is warning the public of an outbreak of norovirus—or stomach flu—in the province. A number of schools have seen an increase in reported cases of the illness which results in nausea, ...