Coughing is one of the body's defense mechanisms of getting rid of phlegm, mucus, sputum, postnasal drip, or a foreign body.

The case of the Canadian teen and the death of a Louisiana man are stark reminders of bird flu’s capacity to ignite serious illness.

The U.S. is seeing a "quad-demic" as cases of COVID-19, flu, RSV and norovirus spread at the same time. Experts said this is ...

A San Francisco resident is the second child in the United States to contract the viral bird flu, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to SFGATE. A CDC spokesperson said it’s ...

A child in Wisconsin has died from the flu, the state's first pediatric flu death of the current flu season, the state Department of Health Services announced Thursday. State health officials say the ...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says hospitals treating people for the flu should test them for avian ...

Over the past several months, bird-flu numbers have been steadily ticking up, especially among farmworkers who interact ...

The CDC warns this virus is at a decades-long high, and Mississippi is one of the major hotspots in the country. Here’s what ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate up to 21 million people are infected with the virus each year. It ...

Do you feel like you’re always coming down with a cold, flu or some other winter virus? There may be a reason for that ― and it could come down to where you live in the United States, according to new ...