Of all the pathogens that have plagued humanity, few are as notorious and persistent as influenza. Its Houdini-like ability to regularly slip the shackles of vaccine- or infection-induced immunity, ...

For centuries, the nature of a fever — and whether it's good or bad — has been hotly contested. In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates thought that fever had useful qualities, and could cook an ...

Influenza rates in North Carolina remain high following the state's first pediatric flu death of the season. Wastewater data shows a sharp spike in flu cases, along with increases in COVID-19 and RSV, ...