"While cases of the virus in people are extremely rare, the effects can be very serious to those who are infected." Health ...

The common-cold viruses rhinovirus (RV) and enterovirus (EV) continued to circulate among children during the COVID-19 pandemic while there were sharp declines in influenza, respiratory syncytial ...

Health authorities in a central Chinese city on Saturday reported the country's first death from a new type of coronavirus, ...

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, scientists this year made significant progress in understanding how respiratory viruses can be transmitted from one person to another through the air. As the year ...

After retreating during the pandemic, colds are back in full force in some parts of the U.S. this summer. Rhinoviruses — the most frequent cause of the common cold — circulate year-round, but summer ...

As Covid-19 began to spread widely in 2020, people took protective measures such as masking, washing hands and avoiding contact with others — and flu infections plummeted. Although flu has rebounded, ...

SARS-CoV-2 virus can live on stainless steel for 72 hours and still be contagious. Here's how long it and other viruses live ...