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A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the first severe case of the ...

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Robert Redfield, who led the CDC during Trump's first term, said "it's possible" that U.S. intelligence agencies were helping ...

Four cruise ships were affected by five stomach bug outbreaks in December, The Washington Post reported, citing the CDC.

The prion disease, first identified in a Colorado research facility in the 1970s, has been making headlines for decades.

Dec. 19, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a surprising link between a chronic gut infection caused by a common virus and the development of Alzheimer's disease in a subset of people.

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19, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a surprising link between a chronic gut infection caused by a common virus and the development of Alzheimer's disease ... brain's memory center ...

Four weeks after a puzzling outbreak was reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has identified the cause.

A person sick with norovirus can shed significant amounts of the virus, and it doesn’t take much to infect someone else.