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An 11-year-old boy with congenital deafness can now hear sounds after he received groundbreaking gene therapy.
Viruses

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists Intrigued by Bacteria That Devour Waste Plastic
Bacteria

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists calculated that almost one out of three men on Earth carries at least one variation of the human papillomavirus (HPV).
Viruses

By Sharon Adarlo

Four patients infected with anthrax after eating horse meat escape a Siberian hospital, panicking local officials who send out an alert.
Bacteria

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of German scientists has discovered a parasitic tapeworm that can allow a certain species of ants to live way longer when infected.
Parasites

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists have decided to resurrect ancient "zombie" viruses found in permafrost in an effort to head off one of climate change's freakiest eventualities.
Viruses

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's nothing like ocean spray gently caressing your face as you take a beachside stroll — quite literally, because it's actually full of bacteria. 
Bacteria

By Noor Al-Sibai

Deaths caused by fungal infections have been on the rise since the 1970s, and fungi once limited to regions of the US are now spreading to most states.
Fungi

By Frank Landymore

Which is worse: crapping yourself in a sensory deprivation tank, or being fined multiple thousands of dollars for doing so?
Viruses

By Noor Al-Sibai

It seems that grey wolves are the latest victims of toxoplasmosis — but in their case, the effects of the brain worm are kind of, well, based.
Parasites

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers at Boston University have staunchly denied that they developed a hyper-deadly COVID-19 strain in their labs using gain of function research.
Viruses

By Noor Al-Sibai

Disease experts are worrying that the next pandemic could be caused by fungi, National Geographic reports, a terrifying possibility.
Fungi

By Victor Tangermann

Many fear that Martian samples could contain unknown, life-threatening interplanetary pathogens, and in a public NASA forum, they let the agency know.
Pathogens

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists say they've figured out at least part of North America's invasive, imported fire ant problem by turning a virus that kills them into a weapon.
Viruses

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Plans for the Russian Orbital Space Station (ROSS) are moving ahead but a top scientist says International Space Station modules could be contaminated.
Pathogens

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists have found a new avenue for finding out whether someone's been exposed to the world's preeminent parasite — by looking at their eyeballs. 
Parasites

By Noor Al-Sibai

There may be a link between cats and psychosis, according to new reserach from scientists at McGill University in Montreal.
Parasites

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers in Kyoto, Japan have created a mask that glows under a UV light when exposed to the coronavirus.
Viruses

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of scientists believe that there are people out there who are genetically immune to COVID-19, and they want to study them for treatments.
Viruses

By Tony Ho Tran

Jeffrey Smith, the man whose wife sued a hospital to force it to treat his COVID-19 with ivermectin and kicked off a messy legal fight, recently died.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Healthcare provider UCHealth won't give kidney transplants to patients not vaccinated against COVID-19 because they're less likely to survive the disease.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

As Arctic ice melts away, it could unleash dangerous, antibiotic-resistant pathogens, nuclear waste, and toxic chemicals that had been sealed away.
Pathogens

By Dan Robitzski

Pharmaceutical company Merck claims its new COVID-19 pill called molnupiravir can reduce the risk of hospitalization and even death by half.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Pulmonologist Matthew Trunsky says that most the antivaxxer patients he recently vented about have since died of their coronavirus infections.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus extended the booster shot moratorium and called out rich countries for hoarding their COVID-19 vaccines.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The water supply on the International Space Station is teeming with bacteria, so scietnists are trying to figure out what that means for astronaut health.
Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

The doctor at a county jail in Arkansas was giving inmates the dangerous drug ivermectin, an unproven COVID treatment, without their knowledge or consent.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Astrobiologist Paul Davies warns that any alien world capable of supporting extraterrestrial life would probably be teeming with viruses as well.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

the laboratory services company hVivo has now grown enough of the delta variant of the coronavirus to start infecting human volunteers in a challenge trial.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Stunning 3D Images Show How the Coronavirus Infects Our Cells
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

mRNA booster shots for COVID-19 may be available in the US starting next month. Many are still unvaccinated, but you should consider getting yours anyway.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A pharmacist was arrested for selling 125 blank CDC COVID vaccine cards to anti-vaxxers who wanted to fake their documents.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Harvard researchers have discovered a connection between exposure to wildfire smoke with roughly 20,000 infections and 750 deaths due to COVID-19.
Viruses

By Tony Ho Tran

Both Moderna and Pfizer raised the price per dose of their COVID-19 vaccines in newly-negotiated contracts with the European Union.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Preliminary research suggests a possible answer for why the delta variant of COVID-19 is so much more infectious than others.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists uncovered a sort of fossil record of dozens of ancient, never-before-seen viruses in a sample of Tibetan ice.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Israel is giving some citizens with weak immune systems a third Pfizer vaccine, making them the first COVID booster shots anywhere in the world.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The Teletubbies are supposedly vaccinated against the coronavirus, but something is a little bit off about their paperwork.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Police in India broke up an elaborate ring of scammers who injected thousands with saline water instead of the coronavirus vaccine.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it's investigating a rare but deadly bacterial infection in the United States.
Bacteria

By Tony Ho Tran

A Texas hospital just ousted over 150 employees who refused to get the coronavirus vaccine, comparing the workplace requirement to Nazism.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Bacteria could provide us with a far more effective and green method of extracting precious metals from used electric car batteries.
Bacteria

By Victor Tangermann

COVAX, the international vaccine program for less wealthy nations, is struggling due to low buy-in from richer countries that decided to hoard shots.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Guangzhou, the the capital capital of China's most populous province Guandong, is experiencing a flare up of coronavirus cases.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

A man tried to treat his bipolar disorder with psychedelic mushrooms. But after he injected instead of eating them, the shrooms grew inside his bloodstream.
Fungi

By Dan Robitzski

As COVID-19 vaccine supply outweights domestic demand in the US, travelers are coming to the country to grab some of the extras.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have found a new novel canine coronavirus discovered in a child who was hospitalized with pneumonia in Malaysia two years ago.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the University of Zurich have modified a common respiratory virus called the adenovirus to eliminate tumors from the inside out.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

The Republic of Nauru announced that it's now vaccinated about 108 percent of its adult population against the coronavirus.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

While millions of people are offering up their arm to get a shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, labs around the world are already working on the next generation.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

A week after spreading dangerous medical misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, Joe Rogan kind of dialed it back and clarified his statement.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A medical journal retracted a paper that claimed "current smoking was not associated with adverse outcome" in COVID-19 patients due to conflict of interest.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

According to Eran Segal, scientist at the Weizmann Institute, Israel has "pretty much eradicated COVID-19 from Israel, at least for the time being."
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says that we'll probably need a third vaccine dose and frequent boosters to optimize our protection against the coronavirus.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA and CDC have called for a pause on the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine rollout to further investigate blood clot risk.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Despite widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines, people in the US are still trying to track down drugs that weren't designed to treat COVID symptoms.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers says it discovered entirely new coronaviruses in genetic data released by agricultural labs in China.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Multiple research teams are working toward a vaccine that protects against every coronavirus at once, including COVID-19 and the common cold.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Getting a COVID-19 vaccine can be exhilarating. Not only from the personal security, but also the experience of a public health program actually working.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The death count as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has been astronomical — but there may be an even bigger threat facing humanity today.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study by the CDC, those who have been vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccines produced by Moderna and Pfizer no longer carry the virus.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists built a bacteria's genetic code from scratch and, after years of improvements, got it to reproduce just like the real thing.
Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski