Valley fever cases are up almost 50% in Arizona in 2024. It's not contagious as a person has to be exposed to fungal spores ...

If you've had more than one friend cancel plans due to a nasty "stomach flu" or "stomach bug," they might actually have ...

Updated vaccines, proper hygiene and staying home when you're sick can help prevent the spread of respiratory illnesses this ...

Why do some people develop severe flu symptoms? A study points the finger at an unsung portion of the antibodies our immune systems generate to fend off invading pathogens.

Cases of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy and poultry workers have largely been mild. However, a new case in a British Columbia ...

As a Canadian teenager’s condition worsened amid the first presumptive positive test for bird flu in that country in over ...

Everyone knows about Michael Jordan's "sick" game in the 1997 NBA Finals, but Lakers legend Magic Johnson had his own such ...

Cases of COVID-19 have waned in the weeks since the launch of the latest booster shot and the beginning of the academic school year. But, once again, COVID-19 isn’t the only respiratory infection ...

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More than 1 in 5 Americans likely suffer from long COVID, a new AI-assisted review has found. The analysis suggests that ...

A new study revealed more farmworkers had signs of infection, even though they reportedly did not display symptoms of illness.

"If you come in with some symptoms of cough or sore throat or runny nose, whatever it is, I can't tell you if that's a cold, if it's walking pneumonia, if it's COVID or the flu. You do need to ...