Medics are urging people to stay at home if they have symptoms, as the Kawasaki variant of norovirus is very easily spread ...

Researchers found hundreds of viruses that prey on bacteria on toothbrushes and showerheads. They’re unlikely to pose a ...

A few months ago, you wrote about the benefits of the shingles vaccine. At 63, I’m one of the 1% who has never had, nor been exposed to, chicken pox. I was tested in 2022 for varicella-zoster virus ...

Chicken pox (varicella) is the disease people get when they are exposed to the varicella-zoster virus for the first time.

"In Donald Trump's America, an unscrupulous, unserious, and unqualified anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist will control millions of families' healthcare choices," Democratic Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, ...

The Republican senator has spent years battling Anthony S. Fauci and public-health experts over the pandemic’s origins.

We tend to think of COVID-19 as a respiratory illness. But, like many viruses, COVID can also affect your skin and cause ...

Another cause for concern: flu season is underway in the U.S., and as seasonal influenza virus goes around, “humans, ...

Global measles cases surged by more than 20% to an estimated 10.3 million last year, the WHO and the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

ClickFix, a new scam targeting computer users, is on the rise in the U.S. The scam prompts its targets to click on a link to ...

The AI-based features are rolling out to Pixel 6 or newer first but will soon be expanded to other Android devices, Google ...

A Canadian teen who is in critical condition after contracting H5N1 bird flu was infected with a version of the virus that is different from the one circulating in U.S. cattle.