In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

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

When the 1925 Serum Run to Nome is recalled, they almost always think of sled dogs cutting across frozen Alaskan wilderness, ...

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

British-born teen Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia aged 15, has been canonised by Pope Leo XIV. But he’s not the youngest person to be honoured by the church ...

“The story of the development of the vaccines for Influenza A is not … a pitched battle, but a long campaign — the slow, bit-by-bit accumulation of data in which one doctor builds upon the laboratory ...

The New Bethlehem Presbyterian Church will celebrate 175 years as a community landmark with a special service and brunch ...

Every occupation has its routine activities including firefighting. Historically, however, the latter profession has provided ...

USF and FAU researchers identify bacterium behind 1,500-year-old pandemic mystery. For the first time, scientists have obtained direct genomic evidence of the bacterium responsible for the Plague of ...

It's a confounding question on the lips of disease detectives: Why have the only deaths from the swine flu outbreak happened in Mexico? Investigators also want to know why the disease has killed young ...

Vaccination campaigns have nearly eradicated some of the most deadly and transmissible diseases. However, against a backdrop ...

In the 1950s and ‘60s Montana was among the leaders in the war against polio and nearly 4,000 Montana children participated in a 1954 field trial of the Salk polio ...