Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s outgoing Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, is lamenting Americans’ abysmal ...

Seasonal flu tends to spike from December to February. People who become infected tend to get a sore throat, cough, runny ...

Flu has surged to high levels across the US, straining hospitals. Experts discuss 2024-25 flu season trends, symptoms to ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect ...

A child ill with fever and conjunctivitis in San Francisco tested positive for bird flu but had no known source of ...

Hand sanitizer is simply not as effective against norovirus as it at killing other pathogens due to the virus's firm shell, ...

Africa CDC’s support for the MOSA, a pan-African randomized platform adaptive trial for the MpOx Study, adding to the initial EU funding, has enabled the enrollment of the first patients at ...

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

HMPV is considered relatively common, with most infected before age 5, according to Dr. Eileen Schneider, an epidemiologist with the CDC. It often circulates during flu season and causes symptoms ...

Seasonal flu activity is elevated across most of the country, according to the latest reports from the Centers for Disease ...

This winter's wave of norovirus infections has reached levels that are now more than double last season's peak, in figures ...