Cases of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, a contagious virus that can lead to respiratory disease, is reportedly spiking in northern China. Infectious disease experts say risk to the U.S. is low.

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, the deadliest tick-borne disease in the U.S., is a big problem on tribal lands in the Southwest ...

Gain-of-function research became controversial during the COVID-19 pandemic ... “That was the original gain-of-function poster child,” Casadevall said. A Californian recently became the ...

The U.S. is seeing a "quad-demic" as cases of COVID-19, flu, RSV and norovirus spread at the same time. Experts said this is ...

Peak hospitalizations for COVID-19 and flu this winter will be similar to or fewer than last season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) anticipates. Between Dec. 6 and Dec. 12 ...

What's more, wastewater viral activity of SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — is currently “high” or “very high” in 28 states, per CDC data for the week ending Dec. 28.

More than 40% of the states (21) have high or very high levels of COVID virus in the wastewater, according to the CDC. This shouldn't be a surprise and it's likely the CDC would find increased ...

For the week ending December 14, 5.6 percent of tests nationwide came back positive, up from 5 percent the previous week. Wyoming, Utah, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Colorado, as well ...

The CDC estimates there have been over 1,500 deaths from flu so far this year. Respiratory illness activity – a measure of how often conditions like the common cold, flu, COVID-19, and ...

In the week ending December 21, there was nearly three times as much Covid-19 circulating in the US than there was during the week ending December 7, CDC data shows. This surge happened in all ...