China Wages War on Chikungunya Virus With Drones and ‘Elephant Mosquitoes’
In a citywide campaign to curb a mosquito-borne virus, residents of Foshan face inspections and warnings for failure to comply.
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Trump Budget Eliminates Funding for Crucial Global Vaccination Programs
The spending proposal terminates support of health programs that, according to the proposal, “do not make Americans safer.”
As Trump Administration Cuts Funding, Researchers Turn to European Universities
European universities have begun recruiting researchers who lost their jobs in the administration’s cost-cutting efforts, or are anxious over perceived threats to academic freedom.
How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks
Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and Americans may pay the price.
Trump Administration Has Fired Health Inspectors at Some Border Stations
Scientists worry that the losses may open the door to human, plant and animal diseases that would otherwise have been caught.
What to Know About Dengue Fever as Cases Spread to New Places
Dengue, the excruciating mosquito-borne disease, is surging throughout the world and coming to places that had never had it. California just confirmed a rare U.S. case.
A Positive Covid Milestone
In a sign that the pandemic really is over, the total number of Americans dying each day is no longer historically abnormal.
FDA Panel Recommends RSV Shot to Protect Infants
Advisers to the agency overwhelmingly agreed that a new treatment would help to prevent a potentially lethal respiratory illness in very young children.
U.S. Authorizes a New Round of Covid Boosters
Older Americans and those with weakened immune systems, groups still particularly vulnerable to the virus, may receive additional shots of the reformulated vaccine, federal officials said.
Bird Flu Sample from Chilean Man Showed Some Signs of Adaptation to Mammals
These changes were unlikely to be enough to allow the virus to spread easily among humans, and the health risk to the public remains low, experts said.