The Bay Area and U.S. are continuing to contend with the worst flu seasons in the last 15 years. To date, the CDC says there ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans flocked to a new trend: raising chickens. An estimated 12 million people now own ...

Few Minnesotans sought COVID-19 vaccine to reduce their infection risks this winter, but at least the shots offered some protection for those who did. The current vaccine was 33% effective at ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Respiratory viruses—such as COVID-19, RSV, and the flu—are still circulating at high rates in ...

Evidence is stacking up that vaping, once thought to be less harmful than smoking cigarettes, causes lung damage—and can be ...

A government advisory committee has canceled a meeting on flu shot recommendations, raising concerns amid shifts in ...

The new coronavirus found in bats is not currently a public health threat, per CDC. Here, infectious disease doctors break ...

In a January 24 interview with the far-right-wing outlet Breitbart News, newly appointed CIA director John Ratcliffe stated that assessing intelligence on a potential Wuhan lab leak was a top priority ...

Ever watched the movie Contagion? Produced in 2011, this thriller tells the story of how a virus, brought to the U.S. by a ...

Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have discovered a new lineage of coronavirus in bats that can enter human cells in a similar way to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for ...

Now that the Trump administration has hailed a victory over "woke" science and installed a prominent vaccine skeptic as the ...