Avian Flu

Scientists from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research have identified a gene with remarkable potential to limit the spread of bird flu among humans.  The gene, known to exist in most humans prior to this study,…

The pandemic of COVID-19, which has killed over 21 million people, has made an existential question concretely urgent. The first-ever widespread global outbreak of monkeypox hit many nations on practically every continent. It felt as…

An outbreak of avian flu on a mink farm in Spain provides the strongest evidence to date that the H5N1 strain of influenza may be transmitted from one diseased mammal to another. When mink at a large farm in Galicia, a region in northern…

The growing cost of eggs in the United States is straining household finances. In recent years, Americans have boosted their consumption of eggs while decreasing their consumption of beef and venison, according to data from the United…