The evolutionary trade-off that crossed humans' airway and food pathway, raising choking risk from toddlerhood to old age — ...

Whooping cough infected more Americans in 2025 than in any year since the pandemic began, with the CDC recording 28,783 provisional pertussis cases through the end of December. That total dwarfs the ...

Popcorn lung is a rare lung disease causing irreversible scarring of the smallest airways The disease was first linked to diacetyl exposure in microwave popcorn factory workers Symptoms include ...

BEIJING, May 27 (Reuters) - Merck (MRK.N), opens new tab said its vaccine against bronchitis in chickens has been approved by the Chinese ‌agriculture ministry for use in the world's largest ...

Whooping cough, medically known as pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection that affects the airways. It gets its common name from the “whoop” sound that some infected children make when ...

TRIAL ON 55 CHARGES TIED TO THE SHOOTING. WELL, IT’S BEEN A ROUGH COLD AND FLU SEASON, AND A LESSER KNOWN VIRUS IS NOW HITTING SCHOOLS AND OFFICES QUITE HARD. IT’S CALLED METAPNEUMOVIRUS OR HMPV, AND ...

Much like a nasty cold or flu, this year's cold and flu season is lingering, with impacts expected for a few more months in the U.S. People may fall ill as late as May and new data from the Centers ...

Cases of whooping cough are on the rise in the US — and so are deaths, with most of 2025’s fatalities being children and infants. According to CDC data, there were 27,871 reported cases of pertussis, ...

You may find yourself reaching for tissues and a thermometer during the winter months, wondering what has you under the weather. As flu and cold season arrives, Michiganders face other illnesses like ...