Trump ends Fauci’s security detail and says he’d feel no responsibility if harm befell him
President Donald Trump has ended the federal security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who advised ...
Kansas is in the middle of an ‘unprecedented’ tuberculosis outbreak. Here’s what to know
Kansas City-area residents may be alarmed to hear that Wyandotte County is at the epicenter of the largest recorded ...
The Second Trump White House Could Drastically Reshape Infectious Disease Research. Here’s What’s at Stake.
Donald Trump’s pick to lead the federal health agency has vowed to replace hundreds of staffers and shift research away from ...
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Trump halts efforts to treat and track diseases. People will suffer.
"No federally funded research means far fewer research breakthroughs. Far fewer research breakthroughs means far fewer new, effective treatments." ...
NIH director to step down ahead of Trump inauguration
Director Monica Bertagnolli will resign on Jan. 17, she told staff this week, ending her tenure as the head of the $48 ...
Biden pardons Fauci, Milley and the Jan. 6 panel. It’s a guard against potential ‘revenge’ by Trump
The heads of the Jan. 6 committee say they're grateful for the decision by President Joe Biden to pardon them “not for ...
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Officials assess threat of H5N1 avian flu
according to leading officials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH. In a commentary published in the New England Journal of Medicine, NIAID ...
As pace and severity of human H5N1 cases accelerate, NIH leaders call for more action on bird flu
Most human cases of bird flu in North America have been mild, a fact that’s underscored by a new study of the first 46 confirmed human H5N1 infections in the United States this year. But the case of ...
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Researchers discover class of anti-malaria antibodies
Led by scientists at NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the research team used a novel approach to find new portions -- or epitopes -- on the sporozoite surface ...