Why does winter make you more vulnerable to colds?
The flu and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, tend to have a defined fall and winter seasonality. However, because of the ...
Cats May Help Spread Bird Flu, Scientists Warn
Cats "shed the virus through both respiratory and digestive tracts, potentially creating multiple routes of exposure to ...
For Wild Animals, the Bird Flu Disaster Is Already Here
Scientists are concerned that the H5N1 virus could set off another human pandemic. But it is already putting species under ...
Why farms, not wet markets, are the pandemic threat you should be worrying about
We call them farms but the great bulk of food producing businesses in the west are better described as agricultural ...
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These are the viruses that defined 2024
As of early December, there have been nearly 60,000 confirmed and suspected cases in 20 countries and 60 deaths in 2024. Children have been particularly hard hit.
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The Media and I: H5N1 “Bird Flu”
Cows don’t typically get the flu. The recent H5N1 flu outbreak in U.S. dairy herds is a wake-up call, not just about the ...
California child ‘may have caught H5N1 from raw milk’
If H5N1 is confirmed, it will mark the first time a person would be known to have contracted the virus directly from drinking ...
At Last, New Weapons to Help Banish Colds and Flu
It’s not like no one has tried. In the late ‘90s and early aughts, a now-defunct company, ViroPharma, developed an antiviral ...
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A bird flu twist and the problem with hospital gowns
Today's health news includes RFK Jr.'s views on addiction policy, the child in a possible H5N1 bird flu case drank raw milk, ...
At Last, New Weapons in the Fight Against Colds and Flu
COLD AND FLU VIRUSES have been making people sneeze and hack for millennia. Ancient Egyptians described a flu-like illness on ...