A false claim on social media cites instructional leaflets in COVID-19 tests as evidence that they aren't accurate. The posts claim a list of 52 viruses "can cause a PCR test to give false positives." ...

TUCSON, Ariz.(KGUN) — Summer just arrived and so have stomach bugs in children that spike during this time of year. KGUN 9 caught up with Banner University Medical Center pediatric infectious disease ...

A pediatric emergency medicine physician reveals the symptoms you should be watching for—and the four viruses responsible.

Viruses that cause measles and the common cold do not produce false-positive COVID-19 reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests, contrary to posts circulating widely online. A ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed the COVID-19 delta variant as one of its "variants of concern" (VOCs) on June 15. According to the CDC, VOCs can be more contagious, more ...

A health official in India is reportedly vowing that an outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus (NiV) in the country’s southern Kerala state is under control despite more than 1,200 people being added to a ...

Johannes B. Ullrich of the Internet Storm Center, operated by SANS Institute of Bethesda, Md., said the center may present a year-end review of malware in its January webcast."The year isn't quite ...