The "Spanish" influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, which caused approximately 50 million deaths worldwide, remains an ominous warning to public health. Many questions about its origins, its unusual epidemiologic features, and the basis of its pathogenicity remain unanswered.

Chinese health experts called on Norway and other countries to suspend the use of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines produced by companies such as Pfizer, especially among elderly people, due to the vaccines' safety uncertainties following the deaths of 23 elderly Norwegian people who received the...

Israeli authorities should provide Covid-19 vaccines to the more than 4.5 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

MANILA, Jan 19, 2021, Reuters.The Philippines is now free of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus, the Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday…...

For Katalin Karikó, vaccine approval is a validation of 40 years of hard work, and opens the door to a new generation of medicines...

Vaccination centers offering Russia’s “Sputnik V” coronavirus vaccine to high-risk groups will begin working in Moscow on December 5, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin announced on Thursday, December 3.

While having a robust immune response to coronavirus infection may sound helpful, a new study shows the opposite may be true.

An oral drug called MK-4482/EIDD-2801 completely suppressed transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in ferrets within 24 hours, researchers say. Could it work in humans?

According to various reports in the Indian media citing PTI, the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, requested emergency use in the country for AstraZeneca Plc’s COVID-19 […]...

An extraordinary thing is going on at the CDC; they stopped taking data about the Flu around the time of the "pandemic shutdowns" around the United States. Now they do not have enough data to talk about the "Flu," almost as if it disappeared during a massive alleged "bre ...

The White House gathering is seen as a stunt for Donald Trump to claim credit for the vaccine...

As public health teams respond to the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), containment and understanding of the modes of severe acute resp…...

The longer the the EU is travelling in the vaccine slow lane, the more politically toxic it will become.

The ANC government faces the possibility of having its vaccine strategy challenged by DA forces in the Western Cape - who may try to find their own supply.

Research has found a devastating long-term toll on survivors, with people developing heart problems, diabetes and chronic conditions...

An electrolysis system can pull oxygen and fuel from briny water, just like the H2O on Mars. The tech also opens up oceans as a fuel source here on Earth.

Author summary The causative agent of the COVID-19 disease, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has an unusually large genome that encodes for many proteins. Among them are four structural proteins (Spike, Membrane, Envelope and N proteins) important for RNA packing and virion assembly.

While you’re waiting for a coronavirus vaccine, get to know the German power couple and co-founders of BioNTech who are behind the vaccine that Britain has just approved.

Author summary Many viruses depend on insect vectors for transmission and spread. Following ingestion by insect vectors, many viruses need to circulate in the vector via a sequential path of stylet-midgut-haemolymph-salivary glands and are finally inoculated into plants with saliva secretion.

People infected with COVID-19 may be likely to suffer serious long-term health effects from the virus, including erectile dysfunction...

"Driving around with the windows up and the air conditioning or heat on is definitely the worst scenario, according to our computer simulations."...

A vaccine that induces immune responses to a wide spectrum of influenza virus strains and subtypes has produced strong and durable results in early-stage clinical trials in humans, Mount Sinai researchers have found.

LONDON: Britain on Tuesday hailed a turning point in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, as it begins the biggest vaccination programme in the country’s history with a new Covid-19 jab.

The mortality rate for COVID-19 is also "significantly higher" than for flu and pneumonia this year.