The World Health Organization reported two cases of a rare virus in an eastern Indian state on Thursday.

For his tireless work promoting the cause of children’s diseases, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being inducted into the Virus Hall of Fame today. The ceremony will feature light roadkill hors d’oeuvres, ...

Researchers are not just worried about the virus popping up on American farms. Other types are causing trouble around the world. By Apoorva Mandavilli In the United States, the term bird flu has ...

The Daily Show is back from its winter hiatus tonight and it’s going into the show with some wind in its sails. In 2025, the Comedy Central show scored its highest-rated year since 2020 among people ...

Late night shows from Jimmy Kimmel Live! to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Late Night with Seth Meyers have responded to the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and ...

A damaging cotton virus thought to be a recent invader has actually been hiding in U.S. fields for nearly two decades. New research shows cotton leafroll dwarf virus was present as early as 2006, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. (THE CONVERSATION) After a sharp uptick in flu cases in mid-December 2025, flu activity across ...

When scientists sent bacteria-infecting viruses to the International Space Station, the microbes did not behave the same way they do on Earth. In microgravity, infections still occurred, but both ...

Americans are being urged to be extra vigilant this winter, as a suite of influenza A mutations has created a dominant virus strain that's spreading more rapidly and evading our natural and ...

Flu activity is exploding across the United States this flu and cold season, in some cases reaching record highs, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. For the first time ...

More than 900 residents were hospitalized with the flu the week ending Jan. 3. Overall flu activity is very high but decreasing throughout the state. Doctors say getting the flu vaccine is still worth ...