Joining the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network is the state’s latest move into an area that was previously the domain of the federal government, before ...

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To help answer common vaccine questions, we consulted Dr. Stanley Perlman, a professor at the University of Iowa’s Carver ...

A study in Emerging Microbes & Infections reports that VV116—an oral antiviral already approved for Covid-19 treatment in China and Uzbekistan—strongly inhibited Nipah virus strains in the lab and ...

The U.S. severing its ties with the WHO will cause ripple effects that linger for years to come, with widespread implications ...

Australia must apply lessons from Covid‑19 to stay ahead of a potential Nipah virus outbreak, one of the country's leading ...

Explainer - What is the Nipah virus, and why is it raising concerns about travel from parts of Asia? Here's what you need to ...

It has been almost six years since the world went into chaos due to the unprecedented attack of Covid-19. The pandemic left so many of us shaken and ...

WHO collaboration has been critical in global health policy, as well as the country’s response to a host of diseases.

Scientists warn that a virus family once linked to 500 million deaths could spark the next pandemic, urging improved ...

As America takes an axe to its health data, expanding wastewater surveillance could save lives ...

Last week, several Asian countries tightened their screening procedures for incoming travelers following reports of a Nipah virus outbreak in West ...