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
15 February 2023
The deadly Marburg virus has been detected in Equatorial Guinea and neighbouring Cameroon, and the World Health Organization is deploying teams to trace the spread of the disease
10 February 2023
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its recommendations for routine immunisations in children and adults to include covid-19 vaccines
4 August 2022
A modelling study suggests that between 5 and 47 per cent of high-risk men who have sex with men would need to be vaccinated to stop the ongoing monkeypox outbreak
20 July 2022
How the virus behind covid-19 enters the brain was somewhat of a mystery, but new evidence hints it may build tiny tubes from nose cells to brain cells that it can shuttle through
24 June 2022
With the number of confirmed cases exceeding 3500, the World Health Organization's emergency committee may declare it a public health emergency of international concern – its highest alert level – in the coming days
23 June 2022
Poliovirus has been detected in London sewage samples, but no human cases have been reported so far
9 June 2022
A regular round-up of the latest coronavirus news, plus insight, features and interviews from New Scientist about the covid-19 pandemic
6 June 2022
This is an archive of the New Scientist daily covid-19 news update: May 2022. Updates from: April 2022, March 2022, February 2022, January 2022, November/December 2021, September/ October 2021, July to September 2021, June/ July 2021, May 2021, March...
19 May 2022
Dozens of confirmed and suspected cases have been reported worldwide to date, some with no obvious origin, which means the virus could be spreading undetected
