Without fail, during the winter months, social media can become flooded with snowfall forecasts showing enormous totals. But most likely these model runs are too far out to be accurate, and they can ...

Americans are being urged to be extra vigilant this winter, as a suite of influenza A mutations has created a dominant virus strain that's spreading more rapidly and evading our natural and ...

This year’s flu season is shaping up to be a nasty one—driven by a new variant of the influenza virus that may be able to slip past our vaccine defenses. A mutated form of the influenza A strain H3N2 ...

Norovirus, the infamous "winter vomiting disease," is surging again across the United States. Norovirus is a highly contagious stomach bug that causes sudden, often violent bouts of diarrhea and ...

Ian Lipkin, an experimental pathologist at Columbia University, is today most famous for discovering more than 2,000 viruses, which earned him the moniker “virus hunter,” over a decades-long career in ...

The flu is straining hospitals and urgent cares across the United States, with the surge in infections driven by an aggressive new flu variant. Flu activity remains high in most parts of the country, ...