As flu season nears, so do new COVID-19 variants. A newly discovered COVID strain known as XEC continues to spread rapidly ...

No, there is no new evidence that Covid originated with a raccoon dog in a market in Wuhan. The public relations blitz that ...

A cheap new test using origami paper sensors can detect infectious diseases like COVID-19, much more quickly than current PCR ...

A new strain of the mpox-causing monkeypox virus spreading in central Africa is the latest scourge to set off a global health ...

Pfizer and BioNTech’s Omicron KP.2-adapted COVID-19 vaccine has received a positive recommendation from the European ...

Samples taken in the pandemic's early weeks reinforce hypothesis that coronavirus emerged from live animal market, not a ...

Experts in infectious diseases agree with Bill Gates' concerns. They say another pandemic isn't a case of if, it's now a ...

They study the planet’s deadliest diseases in remote, conflict-prone areas in countries with the lowest health spending and ...

XEC is also an offshoot of omicron, the widely spread variant that formed in 2021. According to experts, it has some of ...

After COVID infection, prevalent metformin use is associated with a slightly lower incidence of death or postacute sequalae of SARS-CoV-2.

Monash University researchers have developed a new technique to boost the effectiveness of both traditional and mRNA-based vaccines in animal ...