A norovirus infection is characterized by sudden vomiting and diarrhea. Outbreaks are often seen on cruise ships, in ...

The agency, in its latest update released Thursday, said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, ...

The ongoing spread of bird flu in the United States has alarmed experts -- not just because of human cases causing severe ...

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates life expectancy in the US is now higher than at ...

Scientists are issuing warnings after a bird flu patient showed mutations that could increase the transmission of the virus.

Typically, flu activity starts to pick up around Halloween and peaks in February. This year, however, the virus got off to a ...

At Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, 97 patients with pneumonia went to the emergency room between September and November, ...

Samples from a hospitalized patient in Louisiana show changes that could make the H5N1 virus spread more easily between ...

A genetic analysis of the H5N1 bird flu in a Louisiana patient reveals potential mutations for human transmissibility, says ...

Cleaning and infection control were in the well-deserved spotlight ... according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & ...