UPMC Children’s Community pediatrics is seeing strep throat and viral upper respiratory infections this week. WellSpan ...

ATLANTA -- U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's new vaccine advisory committee returned to work Thursday, and the panel may vote on proposals about fall flu vaccines and a preservative in some ...

When you catch a cold or the flu, a sore throat is often a symptom, making swallowing and talking uncomfortable. With ...

There tend to be more bugs around in winter making everyone snotty and uncomfortable. But does this mean that cold weather causes colds? Well no, viruses cause the common cold. But, as Norman and ...

Prior to covid, you see, the cold-getting experience went like this: I’d wake with a stuffy nose and scratchy throat and my only thought was to curse the gods for visiting a new virus cocktail ...

These and more than 200 other viruses spread through saliva or mucus particles expelled from a sick person. “To catch a cold, you must introduce a cold virus from someone else into your airway ...

Most kids will catch this highly contagious respiratory virus at some point before they turn 2, according to the CDC. For many healthy adults and older kids, RSV causes a mild illness like a cold.

What is HSV-1? “HSV-1 is a common virus to which almost everyone is exposed early in life,” says David Hunter, M.D., an assistant professor and neurologist with UTHealth Houston.