Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where will the next pandemic come from? One expert says his "bet is on viruses." (Getty Images/Science Photo Libra) (Getty ...

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

Antimicrobial resistance - when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs design to kill them - is an urgent threat to global public health, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

It's estimated that 90 percent of the biomass in the oceans is made up of marine microorganisms, a group that includes protists, bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses. Microbes lives in some of the ...

Nearly four years after COVID-19 emerged, public health experts already say it’s not a matter of if we’ll have another pandemic — but when. So Yahoo Life asked several experts for their take on where ...