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The so-called "big, beautiful bill" will lead to millions of fewer people having health coverage in the United States. It will make the country less prepared to detect and respond to a future pandemic ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 ...

Biosafety level (BSL)-3 facilities exist in a diffuse regulatory environment, where requirements depend on factors such as the kinds of pathogens under study, the type of research being conducted, and ...

The inaccurate rumours refer to a study looking at excess deaths during the pandemic in the German city of Frankfurt am Main.

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

A 36-year-old woman, admitted to intensive care, is the latest in a string of new infections in the last 10 days ...

The University of Minnesota is stepping up efforts to identify biological threats that could trigger an epidemic, launching ...

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Moderna's new flu vaccine, based on the same mRNA technology used in its COVID-19 shot, showed promising results in a major ...

Compared to the standard shot, the mRNA vaccine had an overall vaccine efficacy that was 26.6 percent higher, and 27.4 ...

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