The U.S. has reported its first death due to bird flu, aka H5N1. How deadly is H5N1? Experts discuss bird flu fatality rate ...

Tanzania's president said a sample tested positive for the Marburg virus, which has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent if ...

In this study, the authors estimated that Paxlovid reduced the risk of hospitalization by 39% (95% confidence interval [CI], 36% to 41%), with an absolute risk reduction of 0.9 percentage points. The ...

Italy reported 793 coronavirus deaths on Friday: the highest one-day death toll of any nation since the outbreak began. The country's COVID-19 fatality rate, or death rate — the number of deaths ...

That would give the virus a 50% case fatality rate, making it extraordinarily lethal – but experts don’t actually think it ...

The patient had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), or H5N1, in Louisiana.

The UK government's scientific advisers believe that the chances of dying from a coronavirus infection are between 0.5% and 1%. This is lower than the rate of death among confirmed cases - which ...

An invasive bacterial infection is on the rise in the U.S., according to an alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Cases of meningococcal disease, mainly caused by the ...

Greeshma, found guilty in Sharon`s murder, receives death penalty. Her uncle receives 3 years. Sharon's brother expresses ...