The South Carolina Department of Public Health is reporting 20 more measles cases since last Friday. Three people also have ...

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

Avian influenza is devastating poultry operations, spreading in dairy cattle and infecting farm workers. Why isn’t the United ...

Key mutations and animal spread could raise the risk to humans. Bird flu is spreading. The avian influenza virus H5N1 has ...

Raw oysters have been linked to an ongoing Salmonella outbreak, the CDC said on Tuesday, infecting 64 people across 22 states ...

As COVID completes its sixth year, official statistics obscure the scale of harm, while Long COVID and excess deaths reveal ...

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home.

A spike in viral infections has sickened thousands of travelers and caused several deaths at some popular European destinations. Four countries — Austria, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia — have reported ...

Story On a Friday morning in October, about 100 high school and college students gathered in a Utah ballroom to play a game. Some students were assigned specific roles and given costumes to wear.

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship on Tuesday confirmed a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a ...

A virus outbreak affecting horses is also affecting the holidays in Lawrence, Kansas. Each year in Lawrence, dozens of horses march down the street, pulling festive carriages and wagons and ...