In light of Pope Francis’ latest diagnosis, Dr. Leana Wen explains why older adults are especially at risk for serious disease due to respiratory infections.
Pneumonia in both lungs is treatable, but it can be life-threatening in elderly patients like the 88-year-old pontiff.
So far, 2025 has been the winter of respiratory ailments, with influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) ...
Jiaqi Tang; Changjun Wang; Youjun Feng; Weizhong Yang; Huaidong Song; Zhihai Chen; Hongjie Yu; Xiuzhen Pan; Xiaojun Zhou; Huaru Wang; BoWu; Haili Wang; Huamei Zhao ...
U.S. officials disclosed the discovery of the virulent H5N9 strain at a California duck farm in a report in recent days to the World Organization for Animal Health, which maintains a database of ...
Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Rd, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China ...
Streptococcus suis serotype 2 (SS2 ... In this study, we identified and characterized a Rex ortholog in the SS2 virulent strain SS2-1 that is involved in bacterial pathogenicity and stress environment ...
Influenza is a major cause of epidemic and pandemic infection. Bacterial co/secondary infection further increases morbidity and mortality of influenza infection, with Streptococcus pneumoniae, ...