Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

Researchers from the Universities of Basel and Zurich (UZH) have sequenced the genome of the Spanish flu virus, thanks to a ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, ...

Children around the world will suffer because RFK Jr. substitutes baseless theories and junk science for knowledge about vaccines and health.

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Many of the protections and behaviours that helped us during the pandemic — like staying home when sick, wearing masks, and improving ventilation – have quietly disappeared, say Independent readers ...

Mr Paddy Chew became the first Singaporean to publicly announce that he had Aids. The moment was so ground-breaking that The ...

Covid has caused serious amounts of chronic illness. Research advances may help not only people facing chronic illnesses ...

The signers acknowledged that leaders of their professions had previously condemned a street protest against lockdown policies—and they reaffirmed their opposition to such protests and other public ...