Researchers have identified microscopic features that could make the pathogen more infectious than the SARS virus — and serve as drug targets.
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When it comes to containing the outbreak, small mistakes will have big consequences for our health
Speed is critical in the response to COVID-19. So why has the United States been so slow in its attempt to develop reliable diagnostic tests and use them widely?
China’s aggressive measures have slowed the coronavirus. They may not work in other countries.
Covid-19 is diagnosed in more and more countries around the word, but is it a pandemic, yet?
A group of 27 prominent public health scientists from outside China is pushing back against a steady stream of stories and even a scientific paper suggesting a laboratory in Wuhan, China, may be the origin of the outbreak of COVID-19.
While the new coronavirus ravages much of China and world leaders rush to close their borders to protect citizens from the outbreak, the flu has quietly killed 10,000 in the U.S. so far this influenza season.
Fake news about ‘patient zero’ and hyperbolic headlines warning about the ‘yellow peril.’
Chinese authorities are culling thousands of chickens after an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in Hunan Province, which neighbors the coronavirus-hit province of Hubei.
Australian scientists are aiming to hit a 16-week deadline to test vaccine for the coronavirus on humans, after the CSIRO animal testing facility in Geelong today received the lab-grown version of the disease.