Feeling under the weather? Local health officials are tracking a variety of viruses making rounds in the community right now.

Well, those are over: raw—or unpasteurized—milk has been in the news for months. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect ...

Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza A virus (HPAI H5N1) remains a low risk to the general public, and public health ...

Most human cases of bird flu in North America have been mild, a fact that’s underscored by a new study of the first 46 ...

Livestock export testing safeguards human and animal health internationally by mitigating the spread of diseases.

Researchers found evidence that early versions of syphilis-causing bacteria existed in the Americas long before the arrival ...

Nine countries eliminated a disease in 2024. Here's how Pakistan pulled it off — fulfilling a young boy's dream of eliminating blindness caused by bacterial infections.

Each week some revelation about bird flu seems to flutter through the news cycle. Here's what the latest research is saying ...

This bacteria can survive exposure to extreme radiation levels. Surprisingly, these microorganisms can tolerate thousands of times higher radiation than what would kill humans or even some other ...

The capacity of bacteria to spread disease across the plant kingdom may ... has a different life history since they last shared a common ancestor 500 million years ago. However, a single group ...

The findings, published in the journal Science, said: "Our analysis suggests that mirror bacteria would likely evade many immune mechanisms... potentially causing lethal infection in humans ...