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Health care providers and public service announcements generally start recommending an influenza vaccination in September and ...

Two suspected Nipah virus cases have been reported in West Bengal, prompting authorities to deploy a National Joint Outbreak Response Team. The cases were detected at the Indian Council of Medical ...

As winter settles in and the annual surge of respiratory illnesses begins, most people view the common cold as an inevitable nuisance. However, new research is revealing that the battle against the ...

Welts, watery eyes, temporary blindness: Zoom in on crowd control tactics used against protesters ...

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Flu is making people miserable from coast to coast, thanks in large part to a new strain called subclade K.

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Trying to understand why the common cold hits some people hard – sometimes leading to serious medical complications – but ...

The Trump administration says we should learn from other countries. Maybe they should have looked someplace besides Denmark.

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