Samples taken in the pandemic's early weeks reinforce hypothesis that coronavirus emerged from live animal market, not a ...

No, there is no new evidence that Covid originated with a raccoon dog in a market in Wuhan. The public relations blitz that ...

XEC is also an offshoot of omicron, the widely spread variant that formed in 2021. According to experts, it has some of ...

COVID symptoms can be mild, severe, or nonexistent, according to the CDC—and can appear as late as two weeks after you’ve ...

A cheap new test using origami paper sensors can detect infectious diseases like COVID-19, much more quickly than current PCR ...

Omicron variant KP.3.1.1, also known as deFLuQE, made up over half (52.7%) of COVID-19 cases between Sept. 1 and Sept. 14. However, XEC and a variant known as MV.1 seem poised to become the next ...

After COVID infection, prevalent metformin use is associated with a slightly lower incidence of death or postacute sequalae of SARS-CoV-2.

A new strain of the mpox-causing monkeypox virus spreading in central Africa is the latest scourge to set off a global health ...

Experts in infectious diseases agree with Bill Gates' concerns. They say another pandemic isn't a case of if, it's now a ...

The sensors could help in the early detection of infectious diseases in new, simple, low-cost tests.

Pfizer and BioNTech’s Omicron KP.2-adapted COVID-19 vaccine has received a positive recommendation from the European ...