After a year marked by measles outbreaks across the U.S., is the virus now endemic?

Public health experts worry the country meets the criteria to lose its elimination status now that a year has passed since ...

New variant of the flu virus is driving surge of cases across the US and Canada

A particularly infectious subvariant of influenza is keeping emergency room numbers high and causing especially severe ...
Nature

Why is flu so bad this year? Highly mutated variant offers answers

A ferocious surge of flu cases is linked in part to a variant that has not been dominant in the past few years — resulting in ...
NBC DFW

Pediatrician explains spike in flu, when to seek hospital care if infected

Locals and visitors poured into the Fort Worth Stockyards where the new year is off to a fun and healthy start despite an increase in flu cases across North Texas. Kelly Roque from South Carolina is ...
New Atlas

Shelved antiviral drug could help over 100 million people a year

A drug once designed for dengue virus, then quietly abandoned by industry, is suddenly back in the spotlight, and it may be exactly what the global health community has been waiting for. A new study ...