The deadliest drug epidemic in American history is being driven by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that can be found in nearly every street drug. Law enforcement and public officials are battling the ...

Scientists have “reconstructed” the genome of the 1918–1920 influenza virus, using a sample from a patient in Switzerland. Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich studied a sample from ...

The new A&E documentary Fame and Fentanyl sheds light on the devastating toll of fentanyl abuse in the United States “Everyone knows someone who has fallen victim to fentanyl,” Ice-T, who hosts the ...

Monkeys infected with a resurrected virus that was responsible for history’s deadliest epidemic have given scientists a better idea of how the 1918 Spanish flu attacked so quickly and relentlessly: by ...

However, a new outbreak has already emerged. LONDON -- The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history was declared over Thursday, almost two years after the first case was confirmed.

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