One telltale sign that sets COVID apart is loss of taste or smell, which isn’t common with other respiratory diseases. Symptoms of COVID may also start out mild and then gradually become more ...

Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at UC San Francisco, said people should be on the lookout for the “Big Four”: three respiratory viruses currently moving through the U.S ...

Since then, I think it’s fair to say that most people have been nervous about the emergence of the next big infectious disease – be that a virus, bacterium, fungus or parasite. With COVID in ...

Some infectious diseases saw a huge surge in 2024, with the spread attributed in part to climate change, declining vaccination rates and the advent of new pathogen variants. The findings ...

Meet the experts: Thomas Russo, MD, a professor and chief of infectious disease at the University at Buffalo in New York. What are the COVID symptoms to look for in 2024? The main COVID variant in ...

Symptoms of H5N1 include high fever, sore throat and difficulty breathing. As for the disease in the Panzi district of the DRC, Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) said earlier in December that ...

The disease has infected mainly women and children, resulting in 143 deaths. A deadly flu-like disease that has claimed the lives of more than 143 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

False. So-called 'Disease X' is a stand-in term for an unknown pathogen, coined to help prepare for hypothetical future pandemics. AAP FACTCHECK – False claims online assert that the World Economic ...

Infants, who may experience less obvious symptoms, are at the greatest risk from whooping cough. But a vaccine offered to all pregnant women and babies offers good protection against the disease ...

The symptoms of the disease are fever, headache, cough, runny nose and body aches. Most of the cases and deaths are in children under 14, according to national health authorities, with children ...

A mysterious new virus - dubbed "Disease X - with horrendous symptoms continues to claim more victims amid concerns of a new pandemic. The World Health Organisation (WHO) raised the alarm ...