26 March 2023
A facility in Massachusetts has been analysing thousands of wastewater samples from across the US every week, looking for viruses and signs of disease. It could soon become permanent
28 February 2023
The US Department of Energy says that covid-19 most likely originated from an unintentional laboratory leak in China, according to a classified document. However, it has not released evidence supporting the claim
14 February 2023
Bird flu is infecting wild birds and poultry around the world. If it were to crossover into humans, some antiviral drugs are available but it would take time to develop a vaccine
14 December 2022
As the world faced the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, Iceland began 2022 by shifting towards "herd immunity" while China ended the year easing its zero covid approach
14 November 2022
Kevin Esvelt, who created the first artificial gene drive capable of wiping out an entire species, says the threat of a deliberately released virus causing a pandemic is being overlooked
18 May 2022
Researchers compared the rate of long covid among people who were vaccinated after catching covid-19 with those who developed long covid before being vaccinated
18 May 2022
Pfizer’s Paxlovid can prevent severe covid-19 in vulnerable people when taken as a five-day course at home, but the medicine may not eradicate the virus in everyone
4 May 2022
Without investigating all the possible health impacts from the pandemic, we will remain at risk of further nasty ambushes like the hepatitis outbreak in children
31 March 2022
Recombination, essentially the viral version of sex, occurs when a single cell is simultaneously infected with two related viruses, whose genetic material could mix as they replicate
23 March 2022
Despite many nations dropping coronavirus restrictions, cases of covid-19 are rising. We won't see the end of the pandemic until we adopt a global mindset
