A Bay Area bookseller whose roots stretch back to the mid-19th Century has filed for bankruptcy, saying its in-store sales ...

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The U.S. has traditionally been the most generous benefactor of the WHO. A Trump executive order to cut ties with the WHO ...

Jan. 20, 2025 marks five years since the CDC reported the first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 on American soil.

Most people now have some degree of immunity to COVID, either from vaccination or infection, Schaffner said. The data on how ...

Respiratory illnesses like influenza, COVID-19, and RSV are surging across the United States, according to CDC data.

COVID-19 has continued to claim lives at an average rate of about 900 deaths per week in the U.S. over the past year.

Nearly five years since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and political leaders are still searching for answers to how the novel coronavirus originated in the hopes of preventing the next global public ...

Chinese authorities are now piloting a monitoring system for respiratory diseases. China is dealing with an outbreak of the human metapneumovirus (HMPV), five years after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn’t have a name, nor did the illness it would cause. It wound up setting ...

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