The states top public health official joined GBH's Morning Edition to discuss the flu subtype H3N2, and how you can protect ...

This year's version of H3N2 has experts on alert. It's a mutated version, subclade K, that may weaken the vaccine's ...

New strains of Covid appear to be affecting people earlier in the year, according to a health boss. Darryn Allcorn, chief nurse at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, said there was no evidence ...

The U.S. flu season is starting slowly, and it’s not clear if it will be as bad as last winter’s. But some health experts are ...

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The flu can also cause a general feeling of fatigue or malaise, Ray says, as well as gastrointestinal issues like diarrhea ...

Last year’s outbreaks were the largest in a decade, fueled by an emerging variant of the highly contagious, hard-to-kill ...

As the respiratory illness season begins, COVID cases have remained relatively under control in the United States into the beginning of fall. While the United States by and large is experiencing ...

The warning has come again. Experts at Institut Pasteur in Paris say that the avian influenza strain commonly known as 'bird flu' in particular the highly pathogenic H5 virus, could ignite a pandemic ...