Michael Osterholm, University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy director, was driving to the airport the morning of Dec. 30, 2019, when his cellphone rang. A colleague was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vaccine research quickly picked up to try to prevent a possible flu pandemic in 1976. AP Photo Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt.

The rapid spread of H5N1 from wild birds to mammals, and even humans, is raising the stakes in the fight against avian influenza. As experts warn of the virus’s pandemic potential, global action on ...

A mess cook's sick call visit at Camp Funston became the first recorded military case of an outbreak that killed more U.S. soldiers than the Germans did in WWI.