The global prevalence of COVID-flu coinfection is 14%, with Asia and Europe having the highest rates of influenza A/B ...

Meta announced this week it was ending third-party fact-checking and moving towards community notes. Some experts fear it could lead to a rise in health misinformation.

Zika, a mosquito-borne virus first identified in 1947 in a Rhesus macaque monkey, continues to perplex scientists in many ...

Numerous studies have shown that fact checking has helped reduce the spread of misinformation and disinformation online.

Zika virus hijacks the skin of its human host to send out chemical signals that lure more mosquitoes to infect and spread the ...

China has not declared a state of emergency. PolitiFact checked multiple Chinese and U.S. government websites and found no public health emergency announcements. One of the respiratory viruses social ...

By altering the metabolism of the skin, the Zika virus guarantees its own survival, resulting in turning humans into mosquito ...

Meta will replace fact-checkers with a user-based system, the company said. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced plans Tuesday to replace fact-checkers with a user-based system known as ...

Alarmist headlines that warn of China once again being overwhelmed by a mysterious new virus have dominated in the past few days. But the virus reported to be responsible for a surge in ...