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Scientists Crack the H5N1 Mystery: Why Bird Flu Hid in Cow Udders, Not Lungs

New Delhi, June 26 -- The first sign came in the milk. cows with swollen udders, discolored output, and sharp drops in production. Mastitis, the inflammation of mammary tissue, is one of the most com... Read More


MV Hondius Hantavirus Outbreak Contained as CDC Closes Response Across 32 Countries

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Eighteen Americans spent weeks in a specialized treatment unit at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, completing a 42-day medical monitoring protocol, the full incubation window for And... Read More


JAMA Publishes Blocked CDC COVID Vaccine Study Showing 55% Hospitalisation Cut

New Delhi, June 26 -- ATLANTA - The epidemiologists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who spent months studying 85,000 patients' vaccination records were still employed by the CDC last... Read More


France Confirms First Ebola Case in Europe After Doctor Returns from DRC Mission

New Delhi, June 26 -- PARIS - The doctor boarded an Air France flight from Kinshasa with a headache. He was on his way home from a humanitarian medical mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He ... Read More


CDC Ends Federal Measles and Mumps Testing During Worst US Outbreak in a Generation

New Delhi, June 26 -- ATLANTA - When a clinician suspects a measles case that a local laboratory cannot confidently confirm, there is a reference laboratory that takes the call. For decades, that labo... Read More


GLP-1 Weight-Loss Boom Linked to Surge in Poison Control Calls, Most Avoidable

SAN ANTONIO, June 26 -- She had already taken her Ozempic injection that week. At least she thought she had. The pen on the refrigerator shelf looked the same as last week's. Seven days, every week, b... Read More


America's Worst Tick Season in Years Is Hitting States That Never Saw This Coming

COLUMBUS, June 26 -- She had been mowing the edge of the yard when her son came inside with the tick. He was seven. It was lodged behind his left ear, small enough that she had not noticed it during t... Read More


FDA Panel Backs Moderna mRNA Flu Shot 9-0, Setting Up August Approval Decision

New Delhi, June 26 -- WASHINGTON - In February, the Food and Drug Administration said it would not review Moderna's application for the first messenger RNA influenza vaccine in the United States. Eigh... Read More


One Dead, Eight Hospitalised as Clover Hill Dairy's Listeria Recall Expands to All Cheese

New Delhi, June 26 -- MECHANICSVILLE, Md. - The label on the container said De Mi Pueblo. At farmers markets in Maryland and Virginia, the same cheese was sold as Kesso, as Quesos La Ricura, as Izalco... Read More


France Confirms First Ebola Case as DRC Outbreak Crosses 1,000

New Delhi, June 26 -- PARIS - The doctor had gone to the Democratic Republic of Congo to help stop Ebola. On June 24, France's Health Ministry announced that the doctor had come back with it. The conf... Read More