Sara Chodosh, assistant editor at PopSci, talks about the 2017-2018 flu season, widely regarded as one of the worst since the 2009 swine flu epidemic.
We discuss why the baby boomer generation is being hit the hardest and ways you can protect yourself. Chodosh harps on the importance of keeping your hands clean. She encourages everyone to consider getting a flu shot. Even if you contract the flu, the shot will at least help keep your symptoms moderate.
You've probably heard about respiratory viruses like RSV and the flu, but now doctors are saying a new virus is on the rise. Cases of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, spiked this spring, according to the CDC. The virus causes many of the same symptoms as the flu , including coughing, runny nose, sore throat, and fever.
There's new information about the world's oldest flying reptile, which was discovered in Australia. The giant creature is known as a pterosaur and lived about 107 million years ago.
Food workers who showed up while sick or contagious were linked to about 40% of restaurant food poisoning outbreaks with a known cause between 2017 and 2019, federal health officials said Tuesday.
