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Experimental universal flu vaccine with an mRNA-based design enters trialvar abtest_1939739 = new ABTest(1939739, 'click');

An mRNA-based flu vaccine designed to offer long-lasting protection against a broad range of influenza viruses is now in a phase I clinical trial, the National Institutes of Health announced this week...

Massive West Nile Virus outbreak in Arizona shattered records, killed 101

As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the country in the summer of 2021, another virus--an endemic one spread by mosquitoes--thrashed residents of one Arizona county, causing a record-shattering outbr...

Google brings generative AI to cybersecurity

There's a new trend emerging in the generative AI space -- generative AI for cybersecurity -- and Google is among those looking to get in on the ground floor.At the RSA Conference 2023 today, Google a...

The Search for Long Covid Treatments Takes a Promising Turn

[photo1]Grace BrowneThree years in, the pandemic mania has settled to a rumbling hum. We're back to sweating on each other in nightclubs, spluttering out birthday candles, and sharing firm handshakes....

A Deadly Cousin of Ebola Has Flared Up in Africa

[photo1]Syriacus BuguziIn February, a 23-year-old Tanzanian fisherman suddenly fell ill, having just returned from a busy trading outpost in the middle of Lake Victoria. Back at home in Bukoba, a dist...

NY officials detect polio again, warn of possible summer wave

Health officials in New York have once again detected poliovirus in wastewater from Rockland County, where a case of paralytic polio occurred last summer.

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Outbreak of Marburg, Ebola's similarly deadly relative, spurs response race

Health officials are racing to stamp out a rare and concerning outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.The outbreak, first confirmed Mon...

Freak infection with an eradicated form of polio shows virus' craftiness

An eradicated form of wild polio surfaced in routine wastewater monitoring in the Netherlands last year, offering a cautionary tale on the importance of monitoring for the tenacious virus,...

COVID is still a global health emergency, but end may be near, WHO says

The World Health Organization on Monday renewed its declaration that the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC)--the agency's highest leve...

Amid China's massive COVID wave, 42% of people on one flight tested positive

Although China has largely abandoned COVID-19 case reporting, evidence of its massive wave of infection readily shows up in airports outside its borders.
On a December 26 flight from th...