Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without HIV Treatment
Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the ...
Tag: Disease Rates
Are Eggs Safe to Eat as Bird Flu Spreads?
Bird flu is striking chickens across the country, causing shortages and pushing up prices at retailers and restaurants. Last week, ...
The U.S. Is Having Its Mildest Covid Winter Yet
This winter’s Covid wave in the United States has been the gentlest to date, in a welcome reprieve.According to wastewater ...
Could the Bird Flu Become Airborne?
In early February 2020, China locked down more than 50 million people, hoping to hinder the spread of a new ...
Health Officials Struggle to Comply With D.E.I. and Gender Orders
Federal and state health officials and staff members scrambled on Friday to comply with a 5 p.m. deadline by the ...
State Department Permits Distribution of H.I.V. Medications to Resume — for Now
The Trump administration on Tuesday issued a waiver for lifesaving medicines and medical services, offering a reprieve for a worldwide ...
Would You Get Sick in the Name of Science?
One cold morning in Baltimore last October, a 26-year-old named Alexander Laurenson strode into a small white room to have ...
What We Know About Bird Flu
In recent months, bird flu has started raising red flags among scientists and public health officials. Apoorva Mandavilli, a New ...
Flu Season is in Full Swing. When Do You Need Tamiflu?
The flu is raging across the United States — and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expect cases will ...
‘This Is a Dangerous Virus’
When bird flu first struck dairy cattle a year ago, it seemed possible that it might affect a few isolated ...
Bird Flu in U.S. Is Creating Egg Shortages and Driving Up Prices
On a trip to a Walmart in Ozark, Mo., in early January, Laura Modrell was surprised to see shoppers “standing ...
The Evidence For the Childhood Vaccine Schedule, Explained
Before their immune systems mature, young children are especially vulnerable to infections — and to falling far more ill than ...
Covid Symptoms, Testing and Treatment: What to Know About Cases Now
There are few constants when it comes to Covid, but one thing has held true over the years: Cases climb ...
Even Adults May Soon Be Vulnerable to ‘Childhood’ Diseases
There were more than more than 32,000 cases of whooping cough in 2024, the highest tally in a decade. In ...
How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence
Most American parents hardly give thought to polio beyond the instant their child is immunized against the disease. But there ...
What We Know About HMPV, the Virus Spreading in China
Reports of a surge in cases of a respiratory virus in China have evoked dark echoes of the start of ...
First Bird Flu Death in U.S. Reported in Louisiana
A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with severe bird flu has died, the first such fatality in the United ...
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