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

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

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

A new covid-19 variant called XEC may spread more easily than past variants, but current vaccines are still effective against ...

A new study published in the journal Cell is supporting the theory that COVID-19 emerged from wildlife trade at Huanan ...

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

COVID symptoms can be mild, severe, or nonexistent, according to the CDC—and can appear as late as two weeks after you’ve ...

HealthDay News — After SARS-CoV-2 infection, prevalent metformin use is associated with a slightly lower incidence of death or postacute sequalae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC), according to a study published ...

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

First used in the 1940s to monitor for polio, wastewater surveillance proved such a powerful disease monitoring tool that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the ...

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

The sensors could help in the early detection of infectious diseases in new, simple, low-cost tests.