The first reports of coronavirus — a group of viruses that includes COVID-19 and other diseases — go back to the 1930s.

Scientists have discovered a new bat virus in Brazil that shares a key genetic feature with COVID-19, raising concerns about its potential to infect humans.

The most common respiratory viruses that cause flu, colds, and RSV tend to cluster in the fall and winter months. Though that means months of elevated risk for sickness, "cold and flu season" is a ...

Viruses don’t often come with silver linings, and infections don’t generally lead to positive health effects. But during the pandemic, some doctors anecdotally began noticing that some people with ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators have created the most comprehensive map to date ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever heard of the virus, ...

SARS-CoV-2 is a protean virus. It seems designed to reinfect a previously infected host, changing its outer coat as well as some of its properties. The virus is also adapting to a number of new ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19’s origins remain hazy. Three years after the start of the pandemic, it’s still unclear whether the coronavirus that causes the disease leaked from a lab or spread to humans ...

With the arrival of spring, the United States is easing out of respiratory virus season, a familiar pattern that has been challenged by COVID-19 for the past four years.Related video above: CDC ...

Amid growing concerns about respiratory infectious diseases, with influenza spreading at its earliest time in a decade, an ...