The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A study by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The _Aedes_ mosquito is a vector of several viral diseases, including eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, and West Nile fever.

The horrors of Covid-19 pandemic are still fresh in our minds, even though a few years have passed ever since. One lesson which the world has learnt from the 2020-2021 pandemic is that precaution is ...

Four viruses—COVID-19, influenza, RSV, and norovirus—have created what experts are calling a “quad-demic” in the U.S. Data from the CDC show that all four viruses are circulating at high levels this ...

On Monday, director general of the World Health Organization Dr. Margaret Chan declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus to be an international public health emergency. Chan made a particular point of ...

Young infants hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) often become much sicker than those infected with ...

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that a Louisiana resident had been hospitalized with the first severe case of avian influenza — also known as “bird ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.View full ...

EL PASO, TX (KVIA) — Norovirus, often referred to as the winter stomach bug or stomach flu, spreads easily through contaminated food, surfaces, and person-to-person contact. ABC-7 spoke to Dr. Armando ...

Pilar Pérez Romero is affiliated with the spin-off company Vaxdyn SL as a founding partner. Lee Rafuse Haines does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...