Stuffy noses and bothersome coughs aren’t the only winter illness symptoms making the rounds right now. Lots of people are also getting sick with norovirus, an unpleasant stomach bug. The highly ...

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Norovirus, a stomach bug that causes vomiting and diarrhea, is surging again after a harsh season last winter. Here's what to ...

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) – A person living in New York has tested positive for the chikungunya virus in what state health officials say is the first reported transmission of the mosquito-borne illness ...

Earlier this month, the Trump administration said it was terminating $500 million in mRNA vaccine research and shifting its focus to other approaches, including a previously announced “whole-virus” ...

A panel of US vaccine advisers voted to rescind a recommendation that all newborns should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at ...

COMPANY PROMOTED AND MONITORED OPIOIDS. RIGHT NOW, AT 446 IN THE AFTERNOON, WE TURN OUR ATTENTION TO FIVE ON YOUR HEALTH, AND THERE IS A NEW VARIANT OF THE FLU VIRUS THAT’S CREATING AN EARLY SURGE OF ...

New York State Department of Health officials are investigating a possible locally acquired case of the chikungunya virus in Nassau County. If confirmed, the case would mark the first-ever ...

After a quiet summer, bird flu is on the move again, and experts say it poses an escalating threat. While the virus doesn’t appear capable of spreading from human to human, it has killed people ...

Scientists have found the clearest evidence yet that Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) – which nearly all of us carry for life – is directly responsible for hijacking our immune system's cells to cause lupus, ...