"But from the standpoint of predicting pandemics, I think it's a ridiculous concept." The numbers just don't make sense, Goldstein says. Animals contain more than a million viruses, and only a tiny, ...

If you’ve ever been curious about how wildlife adapt to short-term environmental changes, a recently-published study has big ...

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when ...

Scientists are racing to understand how a person in Missouri who had no contact with animals became infected with H5 bird flu. The case was confirmed by the US authorities on Friday and experts have ...

Will this pandemic ever end? Well, the fact is — all pandemics DO end. But how do we, as a society, decide we’ve reached that point? There aren’t great templates for this — except one. The end of the ...

It was a hot, sticky day late in the summer of 2017. Only 5 months old at the time, her little boy was a peaceful infant, his mother recalls. "He didn't make much of a fuss." The family lives in a ...

The illness struck the little baby suddenly. It was a hot, sticky day late in the summer of 2017. Only 5 months old at the time, her little boy was a peaceful infant, his mother recalls. "He didn't ...

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What doctors eventually found inside the sample — inside the baby's respiratory tract — has fueled a shift in scientists' understanding of how pandemics begin and made them reconsider the way they ...