Texas on Saturday reported its largest daily rise in confirmed coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic — 8,258…
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Science won’t stop until it beats AIDS, says HIV pioneer
PARIS – More than 30 years after she identified one of the most pernicious viruses to infect humankind, Francoise Barre…
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US may use heat to kill poultry if bird flu strikes again
U.S. agriculture officials seeking to control deadly bird flu have approved a method of killing infected poultry that entails sealing…
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Time for flu vaccine, updated after misery of last winter
It’s time for flu shots again, and health officials expect to avoid a repeat of the misery last winter, when…
Read MoreNYC Legionnaires’ outbreak up to 10 dead, 100 diagnosed
New York City officials say 10 people have died in the outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease centered in the South Bronx,…
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Immigrants, poor fish for their dinner, unaware of mercury risk
It’s midday and the white bucket balanced on the rocky shore at Mountha Uppasay’s feet holds five or six white…
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Southern Indiana school tests students, teachers for TB
Southern Indiana health officials have tested nearly 200 students and teachers for tuberculosis at a Sellersburg school where a student…
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New meningitis vaccines should only be used for outbreaks, panel recommends
A federal panel is recommending that two new meningitis vaccines only be used during outbreaks and not be given routinely…
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Blood from Ebola survivors could help spur new disease treatments
After successfully treating four Ebola patients last year, Emory University in Atlanta is now leading a government-funded project that will…
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Woman has legs amputated after suffering a scratch
For one UK woman, a tiny scratch ended in a double leg amputation, Wales Online reported. In 2003, Victoria Abbott-Fleming,…
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