According to health experts, getting the flu vaccine can help reduce hospitalizations and death. A 2023 CDC study showed that ...

This is the second health care worker to report that they developed symptoms after being in contact with the patient. The ...

About 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized, as many as 1 in 20 kids who get it will develop pneumonia, and 1 in 1,000 will die, according to the CDC. The disease can be easily ...

A third close contact of a patient in Missouri who was hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has reported that they also ...

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Health officials identified three contacts, including two healthcare workers, who were closely monitored after a bird flu ...

Maternal mortality rates have risen across the nation—at an 11% clip from 2019 to 2022, CDC data show. In Texas, the number ...

Omicron variant KP.3.1.1, also known as deFLuQE, made up over half (52.7%) of COVID-19 cases between Sept. 1 and Sept. 14. However, XEC and a variant known as MV.1 seem poised to become the next ...

Hepatitis C is an illness caused when the hepatitis C virus (HCV) enters a person’s body and is spread through blood. Many people with hepatitis C do not look or ...

Here we go again. Not to be an alarmist, but COVID never did go away. It’s been creeping around, changing its composition, ...

The winter season ushers in a new globally spreading COVID-19 variant called XEC, a mix of KS.1.1 and KP.3.3, both from the ...

XEC is also an offshoot of omicron, the widely spread variant that formed in 2021. According to experts, it has some of omicron’s features, too — like less severe symptoms and easy transmissibility.