Little research exists to prove that social distancing is an effective strategy for avoiding disease, but a new study focused on understanding how organisms avoid parasites could give scientists new ...

Who’s missing from the COVID-19 debate? More than a million dead, and millions more with lasting damage. Survivor bias may ...

Whooping cough is spread through respiratory droplets from an infected person and is mitigated by vaccination, which was first introduced in the 1940s. The modern DTaP vaccine aids in protection ...

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services updated its pandemic emergency plan in 2024, several years after the last of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s lockdowns came to an end. Yet the plan is ...

Amazon announces a return of metal-detector screenings and a new personal phone registration system to enhance warehouse ...

APPLETON — Five years ago, we were anxious and unsettled, if not in a panic, as the coronavirus pandemic ... We learned to practice social distancing and wear protective masks.

Christine Grady, the wife of Dr. Anthony Fauci, was among several top officials who were notified they were being reassigned ...

Dr. Charles Olomofe, visiting assistant professor of Public Health, had an abstract accepted for poster presentation at the annual conference of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER), in Boston ...

The COVID-19 pandemic ... Control and Prevention, 2022). Contributing Factors Several factors have contributed to the decline in youth mental health during the pandemic: Social isolation ...

Not since the H1N1 pandemic of 2009 has the country been hit this hard by the influenza virus. This has been the worst flu season in a generation for the U.S. Not since the H1N1 pandemic of 2009 has ...

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes had some clever viral marketing that was creative for the time, but wouldn't be acceptable today.

At least 1,504 people died from complications of the flu by the 13th week of this year, including 22 children.