A biologist is looking for new variants and mutations of coronavirus at Greifswald University Medical Center.Photo: Jens B’ttner / picture-alliance / dpa / AP Images (AP) Imagine a future scenario where a dangerous new virus is detected in chimpanzees. To prevent this virus from spreading … Read More

Photo: Basilico Studio Stock (Shutterstock) Home quick tests for COVID-19 instruct you to touch a cotton swab inside each nostril before sliding the swab into its small test tube or card. But some people have posted pictures on social media comparing a negative nose graft … Read More

Screenshot: Wild / spotlight images HBO has just dropped the trailer for the second season of its acclaimed teen drama Euphoria. It’s been a long wait between seasons – though there have been a few specials in the meantime, but the last episode of regular … Read More

The project’s Lyme map, with darker colors indicating the presence of reported Lyme cases in 2019Graphic: Curriero et al / PLOS-One It may be winter in the United States, but it’s always a good time to refresh your innate fear of the creepy crawling that … Read More

NEW YORK – The discovery calls for an encouraging breakthrough in the treatment of severe CTE, a new study commissioned by the NFL and released Tuesday found that concussion symptoms disappear completely if you have had an even number of them. “It turns out that … Read More

Drinking cups with the logo from Starbucks Coffee.Photo: Stephen Chernin (Getty Images) New Jersey health authorities are fighting to prevent an outbreak of hepatitis A after a Starbucks employee reportedly tested positive for the virus last week. The place where the employee worked was temporarily … Read More

A close-up of the scolex or head of a fully mature swine tapeworm. Interestingly, cysticercosis is what happens when the tapeworms do not get the chance to grow up.Picture: Roberto J. Galindo / Wikimedia Commons Coming down with seizures would be a scary experience no … Read More

Vial with smallpox vaccine sitting on a disc before a vaccination December 16, 2002 at Mid-Florida Biologicals in Altamonte Springs, FloridaPhoto: Chris Livingston (Getty Images) Days after a laboratory in Pennsylvania was locked down because a worker discovered vials labeled “smallpox” in a freezer, the … Read More

Vial with smallpox vaccine sitting on a disc before a vaccination December 16, 2002 at Mid-Florida Biologicals in Altamonte Springs, FloridaPhoto: Chris Livingston (Getty Images) Days after a laboratory in Pennsylvania was locked down because a worker discovered vials labeled “smallpox” in a freezer, the … Read More

A woman Ixodes pacificus tick, one of the two primary species that spread Lyme disease in the United States. Lyme is caused by bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi.Photo: James Gathany; William L. Nicholson / CDC In the not-so-distant future, campers and hikers may be able to get … Read More