A team of virologists, infectious disease specialists and pathobiologists affiliated with several institutions in China and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are monitoring the bird flu situation in the United States. Here's what to ...

Croup in kids occurs due to a viral infection in the vocal cords and the trachea (windpipe). The infection causes swelling ...

Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine have mapped a critical ...

Wearing a medical-grade mask or respirator can decrease the risk of infection. Good hand hygiene and proper sneezing and cough etiquette can also decrease the risk of transmission.

There have been 67 human cases of bird flu nationwide since 2024, 38 of which occurred in California, the most out of any state.

A California child was recently confirmed as the third human case of bird flu with a known source of infection. What could this mean in our fight against the disease?

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

Since early 2024, the U.S. has logged 66 human cases of H5N1. Scientists are keeping a watchful eye on the virus’s spread as we enter a new year.

Interestingly, one strain maintains all the genes from the original human virus, but the other strain is already a reassortment of human H3N2 and an H1N2 previously observed on the farm. Observing ...

stable condition Previous cases include an eight-year-old and a recovered infant A nine-month-old child from Ahmedabad has tested positive for Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV), marking the third case of ...

Doctors in Kolkata are observing an increase in respiratory infections among children, particularly with the RSV virus, which ...