Health officials at the Center for Disease Control have reportedly been ordered to stop working with the World Health ...

The CDC began reporting higher flu rates across the U.S. in late fall. A North Texas health official explains why the region’s only now seeing an increase.

Have a cold? Fever? Sinus infection? Your primary-care provider might not give you a prescription for an antibiotic. Here's ...

As of Jan. 20, the CDC reports that RSV activity has peaked in most of the U.S., particularly among young children—a group ...

Walking, or atypical, pneumonia, is a mild form of pneumonia that often resembles a cold. You may not have a high fever and ...

Kentucky is seeing a “very high” rate of respiratory illness, especially among children. “We are seeing somewhere between 10 ...

This is why we teach young children to do so. Using good hand hygiene and washing your hands can help prevent the common cold. There are so many strains and so many varied colds that people pick ...

Ah, the classic signs ... CDC. Norovirus causes acute gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the stomach or intestines. You can get norovirus by accidentally getting tiny particles of feces or vomit ...

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"The most important thing you can do to prevent spreading norovirus is to wash your hands — especially before you eat ... people of all ages in the United States," according to the CDC, and is also ...