Levels of influenza nationwide are now at the highest they have been since the peak of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, according ...

Outpatient health care visits for flu-like illnesses are at their highest levels in 15 years, according to data updated ...

Amid a new Ebola outbreak in Kampala, Uganda, the World Health Organization has kicked off a vaccine trial. This is the first ...

For the first time since 1952, publication of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report was halted. It returned on Feb.

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Over the past 60 years, the influenza virus has continued to drift and shift. In 1968, a shift once again caused a pandemic.

Flu activity remains “very high” in most states, the Centers for Disease Control said this week, as illnesses, emergency room ...

President Trump has selected Gerald Parker, a veterinarian and former top-ranking federal health official, to head the White ...

AN infectious disease expert at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Dr Chizaram Onyeaghala, has allayed the fears that Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is extremely unlikely to be the next ...

Overall, 45.8% of COVID-19 hospital admissions and 51.2% of admissions for other respiratory viruses received at least one ...

The power of vaccines Pandemic diseases affect us all. They do not respect borders. A virus that remains in circulation somewhere in the world is likely to spread and recur in other areas.