H5N1 is a highly contagious strain of avian influenza A that primarily affects birds. It has circulated for years, but a more ...

HMPV is a seasonal virus and, although it can cause ... global health experts are not overly concerned. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is monitoring the situation ...

Scientist and doctors from around the world are raising warning flags about the bird flu that has decimated poultry ...

News about an outbreak or mystery virus can trigger fear. Use four questions to assess whether the reports are something to ...

A vaccine that blocks infection with the human papillomavirus has helped to lower cervical cancer rates. Researchers want to ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has granted an exemption to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hire a new class of its disease detectives, multiple CDC officials said ...

The big picture: HMPV is similar to respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV ... In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that as of Dec. 28, 1.94% of weekly tests were positive ...

The Trump administration shuttered the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), ending three ...

This is only the second year cases have been this high since the disease was declared eliminated in the US a quarter-century ...

A majority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's work group on COVID ... all Americans to get vaccinated against the virus each year, officials said Tuesday. Instead of the agency's ...

As worries grow about the potential for a bird flu pandemic, leading virologists warn there's a rising threat from H5N1 and ...

Lab scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been analyzing ... of showing the genetic linkage between isolates of virus … and that helps you control it from public ...