A research letter published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics shows that long-COVID levels in US kids held steady at low levels in 2022 and 2023, with 80% of kids with post-COVID symptoms reporting ...

Nearly 6 of 10 vaccine-eligible US children hospitalized for COVID-19 from 2022 to 2024 had at least one underlying medical condition, and less than 4% were current with their vaccinations, Centers ...

A study yesterday in JAMA suggests Paxlovid, the oral antiviral approved for use against severe COVID-19 symptoms, did little to lessen the risk of hospitalizations and death among older, vaccinated ...

During the pandemic, many women were afraid to be vaccinated because of widespread misinformation that COVID-19 shots would harm their chances of getting pregnant. But in a new study from Sweden, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today reduced the number of reported hantavirus cases from the Dutch cruise ship MV ...

Many studies show that COVID-19 vaccination reduces the risk of severe disease, hospitalization, and death. There is less evidence about whether COVID-19 shots make people less contagious. New ...

While most respondents to a survey of US backyard flock owners had heard of avian influenza, about one third didn’t know the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed 51 new measles cases in a nationwide outbreak that has ...

The number of people sickened by three multistate outbreaks of the Salmonella bacterium has rocketed to 184. The Centers for ...

Health officials in Africa are monitoring an Ebola outbreak in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

A COVID-19 outbreak in a residential building in Spain during the early months of the pandemic likely spread through shared ...