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The World Health Organization on Monday raised its pandemic alert level in response to the outbreak of swine flu that originated in Mexico. The move from level three to level four on the WHO's ...

MISSOURI, USA — Missouri residents will likely never know the name of the first state resident ever to test positive for bird flu, but the now year-old case is still causing concern throughout the ...

After a 14-year hiatus, the "Border Showdown" — still widely known as the "Border War" — returned Saturday in Columbia, ...

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A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the virus to spread across Europe during the start of the 1918 ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.