Avian influenza has recently been recorded spreading among minks and other mammals. The World Health Organization has now acknowledged that could be very bad.
The CDC has reported a local increase in severe cases of the bacterial infection in children.
The official tally of reported covid-19 deaths is a vast undercount of the pandemic's carnage, a new study finds.
There have been at least 15 suspected children's deaths linked to the common bacterial infection since September, with the latest reported Friday.
The nose may be less able to fight off respiratory viruses when it's cold out, researchers have found.
Tragedy struck a TikTok-famous farm when avian influenza swept through and killed nearly every bird.
A new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund predicts that even a modest booster campaign would save tens of thousands of lives and billions in medical costs.
Covid-19 is likely to cause less death and misery moving forward, but it's far from a vanquished public health threat.
The victim was reportedly severely immunocompromised, and officials are still investigating whether monkeypox contributed to their death.
The vultures have been dying since early August, and represent similar bird deaths happening around the country.
Some commonly cited estimates of long covid prevalence may be too high, but that doesn't mean it's not still a major health crisis.
The NIH-led trial will enroll up to 100 healthy adults to test a vaccine that protected mice from lethal doses of six different flu strains.
A study found that adults over 65 vaccinated for the flu were noticeably less likely to develop Alzheimer's over a four year span than those unvaccinated.
Influenza hasn't gotten the memo that it's almost summer.
CDC data shows the vaccine was only 16% effective against the predominant strain this winter. Luckily, flu cases remained far lower than usual.
Flu-related cases, hospitalizations, and deaths were low again this winter, largely thanks to many public health measures meant to contain covid-19.
Influenza has returned after a year off, and some unlucky people are getting co-infected by the flu and covid-19.
Over 500 people at the University of Michigan have recently come down with influenza, with a large majority of cases being unvaccinated.
Last winter's reprieve from the flu could make this upcoming season fiercer and harder to anticipate.
A pandemic as deadly as covid-19 could be expected to happen again by 2078, according to new research.
