NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! South Carolina health officials are warning of “irreversible” neurological damage in children as measles-related hospitalizations climb in the state. Of…
Read more Measles outbreak poses risk of ‘irreversible’ brain damage, health officials warnThis story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to…
Read more An Invasive Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Spread to the Rocky MountainsNEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Health officials in New York confirmed a person tested positive for the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus in what is the first…
Read more Chikungunya virus: New York confirms first locally acquired case in US since 2019This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Air conditioners have been working overtime this hot summer, from those tiny window units…
Read more Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near YouNEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Kansas health officials say they are monitoring six West Nile virus cases this year and five of them have been…
Read more Kansas tracks 5 serious West Nile virus cases as mosquito season peaks across the stateIt’s the first confirmed case of the plague—the same disease that wiped out millions in the 14th century—in the region since 2020. A California resident has tested positive…
Read more Plague Case Confirmed Near Lake Tahoe After Likely Flea BiteAmid a US outbreak of avian influenza in poultry flocks and dairy cattle, the federal government on Friday announced $72 million in funding to three vaccine manufacturers to…
Read more The US Is Loading Up on Bird Flu VaccineThis year in the United States, 14 people have tested positive for avian influenza, or bird flu. Nine of those became infected after coming into contact with poultry,…
Read more The Bird Flu Outbreak Takes a Mysterious TurnWhy 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 Initiative. OPV has…
Read more Why Polio Has Reemerged in GazaThe 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 live in hardwood…
Read more The Mosquito-Borne Disease ‘Triple E’ Is Spreading in the US as Temperatures RiseCalifornia health officials are urging people who attended the Kern County music festival Lightning in a Bottle to seek medical care if they are experiencing respiratory symptoms or…
Read more Valley fever strikes attendees of Kern County music festivalOngoing outbreaks of avian influenza have decimated poultry flocks and wild birds across the United States and worldwide. The virus, known as H5N1, is also increasingly adapting to…
Read more The Bird Flu Threat Keeps GrowingEvery 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 games it was…
Read more Dengue Fever Threatens to Gate-Crash the 2024 Summer OlympicsThe 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 virus H5N1 continues…
Read more US Government Awards Moderna $176 Million for mRNA Bird Flu VaccineThe original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Ever since viruses came to light in the late 1800s, scientists have set them apart from the rest…
Read more The Complex Social Lives of VirusesIn late March, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it had detected cases of bird flu in dairy cattle. Initially discovered in dairy farms in Texas, Kansas,…
Read more No One Knows How Far Bird Flu Has SpreadFlorida health officials on Sunday announced an investigation into a cluster of measles cases at an elementary school in the Fort Lauderdale area with a low vaccination rate,…
Read more Measles Strikes a Florida Elementary School With Over 100 Unvaccinated KidsThis 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 trillions of gallons…
Read more All That Rain Is Driving Up Cases of a Deadly Fungal Disease in CaliforniaFuture 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 at the Warwick…
Read more WHO chief warns ‘future generations may not forgive us’ if pandemic treaty not agreed upon: ‘There will be a next time’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 longer breathe on…
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