Two world heritage attractions in Spain's popular tourist region of Andalusia were on Thursday among sites affected by a bird ...

Scientists have successfully revived the genome of the Spanish Flu that struck the world in 1918. This was thought impossible since the lung it was decoded from had been preserved in a substance that ...

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 ...

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

The World Health Organization on Monday raised its pandemic alert level in response to the outbreak of swine flu that originated in Mexico. The move from level three to level four on the WHO's ...

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

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

After a 14-year hiatus, the "Border Showdown" — still widely known as the "Border War" — returned Saturday in Columbia, ...

He is not alone. There has been a slow but steady uptick in COVID cases throughout the summer. It’s a time when people travel ...

The next pandemic disease outbreak is already on the way. Only its identity remains a surprise. Medical science is confident that the conditions for the worldwide spread of a novel, highly infectious ...

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 […] ...