

Health Feb 05

With important details about the illness and how it spreads still unknown, officials and medical personnel are struggling.
By Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press
World Jan 20

A respiratory expert said two people in Guangdong province in southern China caught the disease from family members.
By Yanan Wang, Ken Moritsugu, Associated Press
Health Jun 19

Public health officials agree the constantly mutating influenza virus has the potential to cause a major outbreak and a deadly global crisis. For the second part of the NewsHour’s series on preparing for such a pandemic, we examine how research…
By William Brangham, Jason Kane
Health Aug 18

Is the world ready for the next pandemic? Dr. Raj Panjabi of Last Mile Health joined Judy Woodruff at the Spotlight Health Conference in Aspen, Colorado, to discuss the challenges and importance of preventing, identifying and preparing for the next…
By PBS NewsHour
Jan 28

By PBS NewsHour
Weeks ago, hardly anyone in the U.S. knew what the Zika virus was. Now the mosquito-borne illness is raising serious fears, especially for pregnant women. Judy Woodruff talks to Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health about the…
Over one-hundred people in at least twenty-one states have become sick by eating spinach contaminated with E. coli bacteria according to the Food and Drug Administration, which advised consumers not to eat any fresh spinach until further notice.
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