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Amid the ongoing spread of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in India, state governments have intensified their safety measures, ...

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Abdominal pain in your upper or lower pelvis where your bladder sits could have a non-infectious cause. Learn what causes ...

Antibiotic treatment during an influenza infection actually impaired the body’s efforts to clear bacteria rather than helping the body heal.

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With many viruses now on the rise, it can be hard to know which illness you have and how to handle it. A doctor helps you to ...

Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a critical vulnerability in drug-resistant bacteria: zinc -- or a lack thereof. In a recent study, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, ...

There is no role of antibiotics in treating the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV), a respiratory illness currently seeing an ...

A viral outbreak in China sounds alarmingly familiar to 2019, back in the days before most of us had ever heard of the ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, respiratory infections like colds, flu and RSV are rising across ...

Antibiotic and antifungal drug resistance pose a major public health threat. Live Science is covering the spread of this ...