Australia is battling the largest whooping cough epidemic in history since the invention of vaccines against the deadly ...

The most common symptoms of a chest infection include a persistent cough, wheezing, breathlessness, a high temperature, ...

Cases of walking pneumonia, a milder form of lung infection, are surging across the US, particularly impacting young children ...

Researchers at UNSW Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have developed a new genomic test that can identify the specific strains of whooping cough (bacterium Bordetella pertussis).

Used to analyse past outbreaks, the new method could be implemented to inform public health policy.Researchers at UNSW Sydney and the University of ...

Do you know a “master of metamorphosis”? A scholar, some time ago, thus defined the influenza virus. Because it changes.

Symptoms of viruses like COVID and flu overlap with each other, but there are ways you can narrow it down to get the ...

It can be tricky to judge if a cough needs to be checked out by a medical professional and thankfully a doctor has weighed in ...

Midland County Department of Public Health is monitoring respiratory illness trends and encouraging individuals to take ...

It seems that some are just more prone to illnesses than others, but why? Is there anything that accounts for the difference, ...

People who've recently had the flu are also at increased risk for developing walking pneumonia ... Earlier this year, ...