A virus without a vaccine is spiking throughout California. Here’s what doctors say you need to know - The virus can cause ...

Human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, typically spreads during winter and spring.

Flu has overtaken covid in infections and hospitalizations during the winter respiratory virus season, and their virulence is ...

WHO announces updated influenza vaccine strains for the 2026–27 northern hemisphere season, reflecting evolving flu virus ...

Contrary to prevailing belief, an evolutionary analysis finds no evidence that most viruses with epidemic or pandemic potential that jumped from animals to people were shaped by selection in a lab or ...

What used to be a predictable “cold and flu season” has evolved into a formidable “triple threat” of the flu, RSV, and COVID-19—and now, the highly contagious norovirus is joining the headlines. For ...

A highly contagious respiratory virus, HMPV, is spreading on the West Coast and beyond. Experts warn of symptoms, severe ...

Flu season has a way of arriving uninvited, and it rarely travels alone. The moment someone in your household starts feeling ...

The cold season is in full swing, throats are scratchy and noses are running. We feel ill and hope it is not the flu. The ...

Most pandemic viruses that have jumped from animals to humans do not show signs of special adaptations to infect people, except the 1977 influenza outbreak, which was likely “sparked by a laboratory ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...