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[ad_1] Amid a US outbreak of avian influenza in poultry flocks and dairy cattle, the federal government on Friday announced $72 million in funding to three...
[ad_1] This year in the United States, 14 people have tested positive for avian influenza, or bird flu. Nine of those became infected after coming into...
[ad_1] Why are most cases of polio vaccine-derived variants? Most cases of paralytic polio are now vaccine-derived due to the success of the Global Polio Eradication...
[ad_1] The disease is spread by two types of mosquito. The first is a species called Culiseta melanura, or the black-tailed mosquito. This mosquito tends to...
[ad_1] California health officials are urging people who attended the Kern County music festival Lightning in a Bottle to seek medical care if they are experiencing...
[ad_1] Ongoing outbreaks of avian influenza have decimated poultry flocks and wild birds across the United States and worldwide. The virus, known as H5N1, is also...
[ad_1] Every time the Olympics come around, it seems there’s a different disease stalking the event. At Rio 2016 it was Zika. At the postponed Tokyo...
[ad_1] The US government will pay Moderna $176 million to develop an mRNA vaccine against a pandemic influenza—an award given as the highly pathogenic bird flu...
[ad_1] The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Ever since viruses came to light in the late 1800s, scientists have set them apart...
[ad_1] In late March, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it had detected cases of bird flu in dairy cattle. Initially discovered in dairy farms...
[ad_1] Florida health officials on Sunday announced an investigation into a cluster of measles cases at an elementary school in the Fort Lauderdale area with a...
[ad_1] This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last week, a long, narrow section of the Earth’s atmosphere funneled...
[ad_1] Future generations may not forgive the World Health Organization’s member nations, should they fail to agree on a pandemic treaty, the organization’s chief said Saturday...
[ad_1] Earlier this month, Taison Bell walked into the intensive-care unit at UVA Health and discovered that half of the patients under his care could no...
[ad_1] At every party, no matter the occasion, my drink of choice is soda water with lime. I have never, not once, been drunk—or even finished...
[ad_1] For half a century, Gursaran Pran Talwar has been developing what he hopes will be the next big thing in birth control. A nonagenarian who...
[ad_1] The writers on The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health desks have learned a lot this year. Our coverage of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has continued,...
[ad_1] Dec. 16, 2022 — Laken Brooks, a 27-year-old PhD student at the University of Florida, has dealt with the skin condition psoriasis since she was...
[ad_1] The World Health Organization has recommended a new name for monkeypox, asking countries to forget the original term in favor of a new one, “mpox,”...
[ad_1] The City of Chattanooga announced plans to hold a celebration of life for the late actor Leslie Jordan who died in a car crash in...