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DuBOIS — Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver, which is swelling that occurs when tissues are injured or infected. Liver inflammation can be caused ...

PITTSBURGH – Bird flu, or H5N1 virus, in unpasteurized milk is stable on metal and rubber components of commercial milking equipment for at least one ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Congress blew its chance Monday to give Americans some insight into the COVID pandemic that dominated our lives for years. Following ...

Seasonal flu activity across the country is higher than it has been at this time for the past five seasons, according to the Pennsylvania Department o...

Something is altering the normal seasonal currents of cold and flu viruses. They slowed to a trickle during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic on...

As public health agencies scramble to contain the monkeypox outbreak that has infected about 10,000 Americans, the federal government has done nothing...

DUBOIS — Just when people’s fears about the many variants of the COVID-19 virus began to ease, a new virus — monkeypox — became news and may be causin...

COVID SURVEY: A recent study found that almost half, 48%, of Pennsylvanians’ views on COVID rules remain unchanged, even after two continuous years. A...

To say it is not to fully absorb it: Our nation of 330 million souls has lost one million lives in just over two years to a virus that landed here in ...

Much has changed since President Donald Trump invoked emergency powers to combat the spread of COVID-19. Immunity, whether natural or acquired through...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The “rare but dangerous” deer tick virus that was found at its highest infection rate ever inClearfield Countyin January has been f...

UNIVERSITY PARK — The ongoing detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds and domestic flocks in several Eastern and Midwestern state...

Washington, D.C., is now the epicenter of the pandemic. As of Dec. 23, it had 158 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents, a 541% growth in cases over th...

There’s a lot to be learned about the omicron coronavirus variant, but scientists already know enough to prescribe a rational response to the threat. ...

Just before global leaders gathered in Rome for the G-20, to blather about confronting COVID-19 globally, a damning report was issued by a Brazilian s...

It’s one of the smartest moves by state government in a long time. On-site testing for the COVID-19 virus will be available at schools across the comm...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series on Allegany native Martha Ruether, a vision-impaired swimmer who will compete in the 16th Para...

When Katie Behan had an emergency cesarean section on Easter for the delivery of her baby, Paisley, the COVID-stricken mom did so to save her infant’s...

Even if we never learn whether COVID-19 escaped from a lab or jumped to humans from animals, the public is entitled to a closer look at what’s going o...

There was a “scientific consensus,” they told us. According to the media and assorted experts, there couldn’t be any questioning of the idea that the ...