Here are five key risk factors to know. Grandparents and grandkids share a special bond, but during respiratory virus season, older adults need to take extra care. People ages 65 and older are at ...

Respiratory virus activity levels are rising in many parts of the country, with 24 states reporting high levels for the week ending Dec. 21, up from 14 the week prior. Eight states — Alabama ...

Currently 14 states are experiencing moderate levels of respiratory illness. Cases of flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are ticking up across the United States even as overall respiratory ...

Overall, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts that this season could be similar — or even better — than the last, but the peak rate of respiratory virus hospitalizations ...

With an update the World Health Organization on November 9 2024 stating that the 42-day countdown to declare the Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak over (if there were no news cases), it seems ...

Dec. 25, 2024 — A new method of scanning lungs is able to show in real time how air moves in and out of the lungs as people take a breath in patients with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

An average person may continue to shed the COVID-19 virus for about a month after ... to help stop the spread of COVID-19 or other respiratory viruses. Once your symptoms improve and you've ...

At least 58 people in the U.S. have been infected by the H5N1 bird flu virus this year ... which was able to grow in samples of human lung cells, contained a mutation known to promote viral ...

Dec. 5, 2024 — Improvements in cancer prevention and screening have averted more deaths from five cancer types combined over the past 45 years than treatment advances, according to a modeling study.