Browsing: Pandemic

Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages,…

The NIAID funds high-containment biosafety level-4 laboratories, in which research on highly infectious and deadly viruses is performed. Credit: Olivier Douliery/AFP via GettyStaff members at the…

A US-led research team has verified the first Mediterranean mass grave of the world’s earliest recorded pandemic, providing stark new details about the plague of Justinian…

Hiring held firm in the US last month, official data showed, amid uncertainty over the strength and direction of the world’s largest economy.Employers added 50,000 jobs…

The soaring cost of housing is akin to a “new pandemic” sweeping across Europe, the mayor of Barcelona has said, as he and 16 other city…

Reporting Highlights Gone With The Wind: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing hens and spiking egg prices, the USDA didn’t investigate whether…

The COVID Pandemic May Have Aged Your Brain—Even If You Never Got SickImmunologist Zachary Rubin explains how, according to a recent study, living through a pandemic…

October 29, 20253 min readThis Overlooked Bird Flu Strain Might Be the Next Pandemic RiskExperiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells, but cases of person-to-person…

Amazon is preparing to lay off tens of thousands of corporate workers, reversing its pandemic hiring spree. The cuts come months after the retail giant’s CEO…

Attention has been focused on avian influenza virus H5N1 in the past few years, but scientists are concerned about the spread of other bird viruses.Credit: Ralf…