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Looming funding cuts for one of America's major disease surveillance programs could threaten public health responses experts ...

Like all viruses, COVID-19 is transmitted via person-to-person contact. Public health records show that the virus has spread much faster in some countries than in others, but the reasons behind the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK, NY— A new COVID-19 variant has surfaced in the New York City region, detected not first in hospitals but in the city’s ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University's School of Medicine helped discover a new strain of coronavirus. Dr. David Montefiori, a professor of surgery who also serves as Director of the ...