Bird flu: what is the h5n1 virus and how worried should we be?

Imagine coasting through flu season with barely a sniffle. Or brushing off COVID, no matter how many times it mutated. Imagine, in fact, that no virus can harm you, from chickenpox to Dengue to HIV. E

As the winter months draw in, so does the yearly wave of colds and flu, making now the perfect time to think about protecting yourself and others. You know the drill: wash your hands often, cover your

DR CHRISTIAN GIVES HIS TAKE ON THE HOT HEALTH TOPIC OF THE WEEK

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

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What the scientists are saying… The case for ...