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 ...

Six years ago, the Director-General of the World Health Organization sounded the highest global alarm available under international law at the time, declaring the outbreak of a new coronavirus disease ...

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 ...

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

Experts explain how Nipah virus spreads, why it’s so deadly, and whether it poses a threat in the U.S., Texas or Austin.

UVA infectious disease expert Dr. William Petri explains how the virus spreads and why health officials are on high alert.

Federal officials in May 2023 declared an end to the national COVID pandemic. But more than 2 years later, a growing body of ...

On Jan. 30, 2020, World Health Organization officials declared the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak -- later to be dubbed ...