The Ontario government ended its COVID-19 wastewater surveillance program in late July amid a surge in cases. The program began in the fall of 2020, when […]

Vaccines work pretty well. But with a little help, they could work better. Stanford researchers have developed a new vaccine helper that combines two kinds of […]

Scientists at Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, have discovered a new antibiotic candidate in a surprising place: The human gut.  In mice, the antibiotic […]

More than half of US states are reporting signs that COVID levels are poised to continue their summerlong rise. The latest CDC wastewater monitoring data shows […]

Like many diseases, whooping cough reached record low levels during the early days of the COVID pandemic. Also known as pertussis, it’s back with a vengeance and […]

Victoria Coble, 39, of Greensboro, North Carolina, was 4 months pregnant when she started having symptoms of COVID-19. Things got much worse with the birth of […]

The maxim of resilience and survival is key for medically important fungi, and although these microorganisms are far from recreating the postapocalyptic scenario proposed by the […]

According to a US cross-sectional study, every fifth hospital patient with a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection develops an acute cardiovascular event. For patients with a […]

As the H5N1 avian influenza virus continues to spread among poultry and cattle in the United States — and has infected a dairy worker in Texas […]