Weekly numbers show that 2% of U.S. deaths for week 5 were due to the flu. COVID was responsible for 1.5% of deaths in the ...

On this week’s episode of “More To The Story,” how public health emergencies and the dismantling of federal agencies are ...

The emergence of bird flu in Florida, particularly its impact on dolphins, raises concerns about potential human transmission ...

Five years ago this month, COVID-19 changed the world. The first pandemic in a century altered how Americans saw themselves, ...

Dr. Lynn Fitzgibbons hasn’t seen a flu season this bad at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital since the pre-COVID-19 era. “It has been staggering to see the surge in inpatient numbers this season, knowing ...

The U.S. has seen earlier and more intense surges of the flu and RSV this year than is typical, pediatrician Dr. Ryan Fulton notes.

Five years after Texas’ first COVID death, the state spends less on public health, vaccination rates have dropped and a distrust of authority has taken hold.

Enter wastewater surveillance — a tool public health officials used during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to monitor the virus' spread. But new research led by Oregon State University shows that ...

RSV, respiratory syncytial virus, usually peaks in December and January while infecting the nose, throat and lungs, usually causing mild, cold-like symptoms, the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced hospitals to rethink everything, including how they manage medical equipment-especially when ...

Vaccine hesitancy was rising even before COVID-19 emerged – but the pandemic exacerbated the trend. More kindergartners are ...

While levels of one respiratory virus have reduced significantly in NC since January, the risk of contracting a respiratory virus remains very real.