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ATLANTA -- As of Feb. 24, Atlanta’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated 25 million illnesses, 280,000 hospitalizations and 18,000 deaths from the flu this season. With that in mind, the CDC also reported that influenza activity is low nationwide as of Feb. 18. The virus certainly made an…

A new U.S. government assessment that COVID-19 likely originated from a lab leak in China is sure to add fuel to House oversight hearings into the pandemic's origins and have a bearing on future funding for the National Institutes of Health.

When the virus does make the leap to humans, it’s highly fatal, with a mortality rate greater than 50%.

The case comes amid “a rising epidemic of sexually transmitted disease” in the U.S., a public health expert told Fortune.

It would make more sense to screen a plane's wastewater to look for new variants than to screen individual passenger volunteers, some researchers say. Others say any information is helpful.

As COVID-19 infections surge in China, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering sampling wastewater taken from international aircraft to track any emerging new variants, the agency told Reuters.

Something is altering the normal seasonal currents of cold and flu viruses. They slowed to a trickle during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic only to blast through human populations this year. Some public health experts have called it a “tripledemic,” but it might even be described as a…

All three people who died had other health conditions.

There have so far been 10 cases of a mysterious strain of pneumonia in Argentina, with three people dying, and the UK's top scientists are monitoring the situation