A study published in PNAS reveals how a bacterial pathogen coordinates N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) metabolism at the ...

Outdoor cats enjoy scratching their nails on a variety of natural surfaces, such as tree trunks. The bark offers the optimal surface to help cats shed old claw sheaths. Other objects they may scratch ...

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced the enrollment of 15 additional states in its National Milk ...

We all know that a healthy, balanced diet dominated by unprocessed foods is a recipe for gut and overall health, but ...

Care for the flu is generally supportive — meaning rest, hydration, and over-the-counter medication, but as the Mayo Clinic ...

Flu season is here in New Jersey, but other illnesses are in full swing in the Garden State. Here are the symptoms and how ...

While the latest state report shows the first significant decrease in flu cases since the peak, the numbers are still higher ...

Samples taken from the first patient who died from bird flu show that a strain of the virus has “mutated” to infect humans ...

Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain. Good news: approved ...

Bats are widely recognized as the primary hosts of filoviruses, such as Ebola, yet the specific host species of ebolaviruses ...

U.S. regulators on Wednesday banned the dye called Red 3 from the nation's food supply, nearly 35 years after it was barred ...

The Public Health Agency of Canada is part of the federal health portfolio. Our activities focus on protecting against threats to public health, preventing and reducing diseases and injury, and ...