The Democratic Republic of the Congo is experiencing a major outbreak of Ebola disease caused by Orthoebolavirus bundibugyoense (Bundibugyo virus), which was declared on May 15, 2026. To investigate t...

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

During the 2022 global mpox outbreak, gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) were disproportionately affected,s however, the true number of cases is likely higher than reported due ...

In January 2021 Anthony Fauci, then director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, sent a text message stating that the second dose of covid vaccine “theoretically could be ...

Background Following up on our previous post, we are continuing to sequence Bundibugyo virus (BDBV) genomes and performing phylodynamic analyses to understand how the current outbreak started and is u...

A phylogenetic analysis of 22 genomes from the recent Bundibugyo virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda suggests the outbreak was caused by a new zoonotic spillover event.

The government of Uganda has gone quiet on an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus that it reported late last month, the WHO acknowledged.

Background: Vaccination with rVSV-ZEBOV is highly effective against Zaire ebolavirus, but protection against Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV) is unknown. We used a stochastic network model of the 2026 Dem...

Background: There are currently no vaccines approved for the prevention or treatment of Orthoebolavirus bundibugyoense (Bundibugyo virus; BDBV). The recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus- Zaire ebola...

On May 15, 2026, the Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene and Social Welfare of DR Congo declared the country's 17th recorded Ebola disease outbreak after the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale ...

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Since May, 2022, clusters of monkeypox infections have caused global concern. At present, this concern has been tempered by the fact that, even when uncontrolled, the number of infections is growing s...

Using a commercially available H5 serology assay, we identified a 7.4% (n=5/68) anti-H5 seroreactivity rate among hunters in Northern Canada. All participants reported close contact with wild birds. ...

Ebola virus disease (EVD), caused by the Ebola virus (EBOV), is characterized by high morbidity and mortality, with 16 distinct EVD outbreaks reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), al...

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Virologist Jay Hooper is developing a vaccine for the rare rodent virus behind an outbreak on a cruise ship.

A research group raises red flags about foreign interference in the province’s independence referendum.

This cohort study examines associations of the 9-valent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine with HPV-related cancers in males aged 9 to 26 years.

Matt Ridley, global warming skeptic and co-author with Alina Chan of a book promoting a lab origin of SARS-CoV-2, was invited by Jay Bhattacharya, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NI...

The White House is asking Congress to cut $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health and downsize the number of institutes and centers from 27 to 22

Measles is at a 30-year high in the U.S., but technicalities may stave off the loss of the nation’s measles elimination status.

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Physician Emilie G.C. Thompson’s grandfather created the hepatitis B vaccine. Now she’s watching his legacy get dismantled.

Many pathogens, both those with human spillover potential as well as avian-specific viruses, are maintained in wild bird populations. While much surveillance for influenza A viruses (IAVs) is performe...

Over the course of the year, the Trump administration cut billions in funding for the National Institutes of Health, and $500 million worth of mRNA vaccine research. “There has been erosion of trust in science and public health and medicine,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at the Texas Children’s Hospital. “But it’s not random, this occurred deliberately by bad actors for political motivation.” Dr. Francis Collins, the former director of the NIH, said he’s never seen anything like this. Cuts to NIH resulted in the cancellation of 383 clinical trials affecting 74,000 trial participants. “Many of these people very serious cancers for which we don't have a great answer, but maybe we're in the middle of discovering one, and then the trial gets stopped, and all that data is lost, and those people are basically left to drift,” Dr. Collins said. “This is immoral to drop somebody into that space.”

When speed meets experience: emergency funding builds on past Mpox research

Background: As mpox virus (MPXV) has continued to expand geographically, critical knowledge gaps in environmental persistence in resource-limited healthcare settings remain. Despite evidence of fomite...

We propose a new nomenclature for mpox virus lineages with sustained human-to-human transmission to improve tracking, communication and public health response.