Leighterton still relied on horse-drawn carts when a few hundred young Australians arrived in 1918, weaving their way through ...

Four such pandemic influenzas have occurred in only the past century, with the 1918 ‘Spanish flu’ alone having resulted in 50 million deaths worldwide. Given the past two years’ and ongoing ...

As the federal government lays off workers at CDC and NIAID, shutters programs, cuts research grants, and considers changes ...

Cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health are expected to reduce the agency's workforce by more than ...

Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of ...

The Australian author’s second novel returns to World War One England to consider the significance of meaningful work for ...

The world’s foremost influenza experts know remarkably little; they have not even known that flu was a virus for very long. To inform us about its evolutionary history, its human history and what it ...

In recent weeks, a small but pointed COVID-based theater project has triggered a strange trail of digital disruption.

Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context. Saturday Hashtag: #CovidStacking originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy ...

The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season — many of them so sudden that families are ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...