Hundreds of deadly virus samples are missing from a laboratory in Australia, the Queensland government announced on Monday. The government has instructed Queensland Health — Australia’s public health ...

A Sept. 2 Instagram post (direct link, archive lin k) shows a screenshot of a post on X, formerly Twitter, which makes a claim about COVID-19 and the virus that causes it. "There is no new variant of ...

Inside the high-security Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two experienced scientists were pulling ferrets out of their HEPA-filtered cages on a Monday in December ...

Where and when the Covid-19 pandemic began — in Wuhan, China in late 2019 — is well known. How it began is a matter of heated controversy. There are two competing hypotheses, one of which is hindering ...

The Energy Department said it reached the conclusion with "low confidence." The news that the U.S. Department of Energy now believes with "low confidence" that the COVID-19 pandemic "most likely" was ...

Researchers from USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and their university partners are helping U.S. tomato growers ...

Decades of research have showed scientists what mutations to watch for in the H5N1 virus. The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could ...

A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate. By Julian E. Barnes ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Saturday that a coronavirus lab leak could still be considered a "natural occurrence" if the definition of lab leak meant that someone was infected in the wild and went "into a ...

A Northwestern Medicine research lab has found a usually harmless virus in brain samples from Parkinson’s patients. The idea that Parkinson’s could be linked to a virus had been theorized for years, ...

The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. There is no indication that ...