The overall number of respiratory virus cases in hospital emergency departments dropped last week for the first time in five ...

If you’re older, you may get a more severe infection than a younger person would, especially if you have an underlying chronic condition.” While vaccines don’t prevent older adults from getting ...

For most children, illnesses like measles or the flu are unpleasant but manageable. A fever, a rash, some time home from ...

“Double pneumonia” is not an official medical term. It may be being used to describe two different aspects of Pope Francis’s ...

The main symptoms of norovirus include signs of gastroenteritis, Martinello says. A mild norovirus infection might just cause ...

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