Michael Osterholm, University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy director, was driving to the ...

Live Science spoke with leading epidemiologist Michael Osterholm about his new book, "The Big One," which discusses the next ...

There has been a slow but steady uptick in COVID cases throughout the summer. It’s a time when people travel, are sociable, ...

More than 30 million children in Europe and central Asia were under-protected against measles in 2024, causing serious ...

Depopulation — unremitting, long-term population decline — promises to be the 21st century’s most important demographic trend ...

For centuries, doctors and scientists have agreed that germs are the underlying cause of infectious diseases. Someone coughs ...

Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis was one of three top officials at the CDC who resigned after the White House fired the agency's ...

As millennials enter middle age, their mortality rates remain elevated. Things are looking better for the younger generation ...

Researchers hope the antibody cocktail could work as a standalone prophylactic for high-risk groups, in addition to serving as a therapy for those severely ill with flu.

Before COVID-19, influenza was considered the most deadly pandemic agent. A 1918-1919 flu pandemic killed 50 million people around the world, including 675,000 in the U.S., historians estimate.

The idea that vaccines can "overwhelm" a child's immune system betrays a fundamental misconception about how the human body ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to continue creating novel pandemic viruses in apparent defiance of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump calling for a crackdown on the ...