Tag: virus

Conspiracy theories are swirling following the announcement that President Joe Biden plans to wear a face mask indoors after first lady Jill Biden contracted COVID-19.Jill Biden's communications director Elizabeth Alexander ...

Two Massachusetts residents have contracted the mosquito-born West Nile virus in the state's first human cases of the year.The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) announced Tuesday, August 29 that ...

After all the controversy over the past few years about gain-of-function research on viruses, especially the Covid-19 virus, I thought this kind of work was on hold, at least in ...

Although the World Health Organization has labeled the latest monkeypox outbreak a global emergency, vaccination and treatment options continue to be scarce in the US. Many infected people have been ...

The first known case of polio in the U.S. since 2013 has turned up in the New York City metropolitan area, and healthcare workers are being advised to be "vigilant" ...

The Biden administration this week announced plans to expand access to monkeypox virus vaccinations and testing as cases begin to rise across the country.People who may have been exposed to ...

The White House on Thursday announced more steps to make the antiviral treatment Paxlovid more accessible across the U.S. as it projects COVID-19 infections will continue to spread over the ...

After half a dozen monkeypox cases were identified in the United Kingdom earlier this month, countries on alert across the world have spent the past week looking for—and finding—hundreds of ...

President Biden on Sunday said that the recent spread of monkeypox in at least 12 countries are "something that everybody should be concerned about."Why it matters: These are the president's ...

A case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Massachusetts, following reports of nine cases in the U.K. since early May. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) released a statement ...