For parents up and down the country news that two young people have died and 11 others are seriously ill after contracting deadly meningitis will have sent them into a tailspin of worry.

Two people from the University of Kent have died, while several more are in hospital, after an outbreak of meningitis in the ...

Symptoms of HMPV usually overlap with those of other respiratory viruses and can include cough, fever, nasal congestion, and shortness of breath. More severe infections can lead to bronchitis, ...

An FDA advisory committee voted to recommend including a viral strain of the flu, subclade k, in vaccines beginning this fall.

A long-running debate in vaccine design revolves around whether a vaccine should be optimized to prevent the virus from replicating inside an infected host or prevent the virus from transmitting to ...

As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well. It had one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade.

The US FDA’s vaccine advisors have recommended that three new influenza strains be included in next winter’s influenza vaccine, aiming in part to tamp down illness caused by subclade K, a mutated form ...

Flu season might be winding down — but don’t stash the tissues just yet. A little-known respiratory virus with no vaccine or ...