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The best ways to keep germs at bay include getting vaccinated and washing your hands and the surfaces you touch. Learn what ...

A woman in New York may have contracted a case of locally-transmitted chikungunya virus, an illness usually associated with travel. Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne viral disease that can cause fever, ...

The budget of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a partnership including the World Health Organization and the Gates ...

A NEW strain of Covid has been circulating in the UK in recent weeks, accounting for a high proportion of cases in England. The new strain, known as Stratus, is commonly associated with a key ...

Japan has declared a nationwide flu outbreak after a sharp rise in influenza cases, five weeks earlier than usual. Health ...

UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics is seeing a flu cases, hand, foot and mouth, viral upper respiratory infections with cough and croup. Providers there say parents should be especially vigilant as ...

A combination of children returning to school, adults back at work after the summer break and people spending more time ...

The 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States include Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech and Novavax. The vaccines are all approved for people age 65 and older. Each vaccine also is approved ...

Positive tests have increased from 7.6% to 8.4% in a week. Whilst hospitalisations have also increased from 2.00 per 100,000 to 2.73 per 100,000. But it’s not just Covid, with UKHSA also reporting a ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...