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The World Health Organization is working double-time. While a team is helping China figure out how to deal with its bird flu outbreak (which now includes boiling baby chickens, apparently), the ...

The Virginia woman who is the region's first suspected case of a mysterious new respiratory ailment was isolated in a sealed hospital room in February after returning from China complaining of ...

CHICAGO -- Two people suspected of contracting SARS in Asia apparently gave it to five others when they returned home, marking the first time the illness is believed to have spread within Illinois, ...

A broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccine could have prevented up to 78% of COVID-19 deaths, according to new modelling, and ...