Although this year’s flu vaccine doesn’t protect as well against the dominant subclade K strain, doctors still say that ...

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It's the season for giving -- and sometimes getting --- respiratory viruses. Dr. Shira Doron, the Chief Infection Control Officer for Tufts Medicine health system, on how to stay healthy. It's the ...

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The _Aedes_ mosquito is a vector of several viral diseases, including eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, and West Nile fever. Lee Haines, CC BY-ND Humans have an exceptional ability to deal with ...

Remember those old I'm a Mac, I'm a PC ads? In one, the Mac looks on, concerned, while the PC keeps sneezing from a virus it's caught, eventually crashing backward onto the ground. For a while, Macs ...