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A study published Wednesday shows that the early U.S. death toll during the COVID-19 pandemic was higher than previously recorded. The journal Science Advances found that more than 155,000 ...

Unexpected chilblains, unusual rashes, and flareups of existing conditions— Katharine Lang asks experts how the skin can react to covid infection “Covid toes”—swollen and itchy red or purple toes, or ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Doctors across multiple countries are flagging a painful new COVID-19 symptom tied to a fast-spreading variant: a sore throat ...

Two emerging pathogens with animal origins - influenza D virus and canine coronavirus - have so far been quietly flying under the radar, but researchers warn conditions are ripe for the viruses to ...

Health authorities in India say they have contained a potential outbreak of a bat-borne virus with no approved vaccine or cure. With a fatality rate between 40% to 75%, authorities in several Asian ...

COVID-19 is still killing more than 100,000 Americans a year, new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study shows—underscoring how the virus remains a major health threat even if the ...

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, ...

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) illustration shows “ultrastructural morphology” exhibited by coronaviruses. A novel coronavirus was identified as the cause of an outbreak of ...

Researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have discovered that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, uses a sophisticated tactic to evade the human body's defense ...

A Chinese virologist is hiding in the US in fear that Beijing wants revenge for her spreading theories that the COVID-19 virus originated in a lab, a new report said. Dr. Li-Meng Yan left her family ...