A. You might be suffering from influenza. Colds do not usually cause body aches. This year, the dominant influenza virus has ...

The latest data on respiratory illness in the United States shows that shoppers and merry-makers are spreading more than just holiday cheer: They’re also passing around germs. In many cases, it’s a ...

Every winter, as the air sharpens and scarves return to shoulders, an old visitor also makes a reappearance: the flu. It ...

It may feel like you are surrounded by sniffles and coughs, but flu season activity is still low in many parts of the U.S.

Avian influenza viruses (AIVs) represent an evolving global threat to animal and human health, with outbreaks recurring across wild bird populations, ...

Finding that vampire bats along Peru’s coast carried H5N1 antibodies raises concerns that multiple bat species could become ...

Norovirus and flu have a few things in common in terms of how you get each.

But people with norovirus won’t get the respiratory symptoms that are characteristic of the flu, like the congestion and ...

New Delhi: An international team of scientists from Japan, the US, Australia, and Belgium has detected a new Covid-19-like virus from a species of moustached bats in Brazil, stoking fears of a ...

Late in the Middle Ages, Italian stargazers gave a name to the annual contagion that rolled around each year like clockwork. It was a name that stuck, and to this day is known as influenza. Medieval ...

What to know about Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, the recent rise of influenza cases in Asia, and more Length: Long Speed: 1.0x A surge of influenza cases in countries across Asia has ...

With its many variations, its ability to mutate, evade population immunity, and spread throughout the population, and its potential to cause serious illness and even death, the influenza viruses are ...