Common symptoms of active TB include coughing, chest pains, fever, fatigue and coughing up blood or phlegm. The airborne respiratory illness is usually transmitted during prolonged close contact with an infected person.

The White House on Tuesday held a summit with vaccine manufacturers and scientists as it set its sights on next-generation Covid vaccines that could offer much broader protection against the...

Donald Trump’s pick to lead the federal health agency has vowed to replace hundreds of staffers and shift research away from infectious diseases and vaccines. Such an overhaul could imperil the development of life-saving treatments,

Trump administration halts federal health agency communications, including CDC website updates and NIH news releases, causing concerns for scientific research

This colorized electron microscope image released by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on March 26 ... epithelial cells (blue). (CDC/NIAID via AP, File) ATLANTA (AP) — For the first time since the 2022 countrywide outbreak ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect may have bird flu.

Bird flu infections around the U.S. have forced mass cullings and resulted in the deaths of zoo animals and pets

To improve and streamline oversight of risky pathogen research, President-elect Donald Trump should create a new biosafety and biosecurity agency.

For the first time since the 2022 countrywide outbreak, bird flu hit a poultry producer in Georgia, the nation's top state for chicken production. The state Department of Agriculture announced Friday that the agency has detected a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza at a commercial poultry producer in Elbert County,

The likely next secretary of Health and Human Services scared me with a cruel and misleading statement—and that’s the danger he poses to parents everywhere.

Of five major HHS agency offices focused on health equity, only one has taken down its website amid President Trump's executive orders to end federal government diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives.

A human pandemic is not inevitable even now, more than a dozen experts said in interviews. Read more at straitstimes.com.