A vaccine usually trains your immune system to recognize one target. Here, the target is basically “anything that doesn’t belong in the lungs.

As vital as vaccines are, they can be frustratingly selective about their targets. Scientists from institutions across the US ...

Prior exposure to one strain of influenza virus may weaken children's ability to mount an effective antibody response against their subsequent exposure to a different flu strain, according to a study ...

Severe COVID-19 raises lung cancer risk by 24%, study of 76 million Americans finds In A Nutshell People hospitalized with severe COVID-19 had roughly a 24 percent higher risk of developing lung ...

Pediatricians at Penn State Health Golisano Children’s Hospital are seeing viral upper respiratory infections, flu and RSV. UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics reports a stomach bug, ...

A swine flu case in Spain with no pig exposure has raised questions about how the virus spread and triggered international health monitoring.

Severe COVID-19 and influenza infections prime the lungs for cancer and can accelerate the disease's development, but vaccination heads off those harmful effects, new research from UVA Health's Beirne ...

That familiar combination of fever, aches, and fatigue might seem like another seasonal flu, but when confusion or mental changes join the mix, your body could be signaling something far more ...

That shared tactic exposes a vulnerable point in one of bacteria’s most essential systems and reframes where new antibiotics ...

The avian flu is normally hosted in birds and is primarily spread across flock through mucous, saliva or feces. The virus is not frequently transmitted from person-to-person, but can transfer from ...

A Clinton County teen has died after being infected with the flu, health officials said, marking the county’s first reported ...