They can range from mild to severe, and both diseases are potentially deadly. Neither virus is treatable with antibiotics, but the flu can be treated with anti-viral drugs that can help lessen ...

Flu, COVID-19, the common cold and RSV have similarities, but they differ in their severity, contagiousness and symptoms. Vaccines are available for COVID-19, the flu and RSV. However, there is no ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that it aims to accomplish within four years a scientific feat that hasn’t been achieved for the past 45: the development of a universal ...

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, more people in the U.S. died of influenza than from COVID-19 in the week ending on Jan. 25, according to weekly figures published by the Centers ...

Americans are in the throes of flu season in large swaths of the country. Data − from traces in wastewater to hospitalizations − show higher levels of flu virus circulating in most of the U.S. So far ...