Pathogens such as the coronavirus can travel around the world at a speed that too often outpaces governments’ ability to detect, treat, cure, and prevent diseases. Even the best-funded health care ...

More than five years on, studies suggest the animal is the most likely culprit, but other candidates haven't been ruled out.

By Brent Cunningham In “Bird Flu in Cows Is a Slow-Motion Disaster,” FERN’s latest publishing partnership with The New York Times opinion section, science journalist and FERN contributor Maryn ...

In 2024, the CDC worked with the WHO to respond to a Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda that lasted for several months. On average, about half of people infected with Marburg virus do not survive, so ...

Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in ...

The U.S. will be seen as a pariah in the global community if it does not play a collaborative role in preventing the next ...

Michael Horne, the CEO of the Parkland Health Foundation, started in education. He wants to build a North Texas and a Dallas ...

The president, still angry about the pandemic response, may be cutting into the country’s fundamental ability to identify ...

A new journal purports to improve the publishing process through open access and public peer review, but it was co-founded by ...

In 2022 alone, more than 108,000 people died in the U.S. because of an opioid overdose—a staggeringly high death toll that has abated little since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Drug ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resumed publishing its weekly scientific report Thursday after an ...