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Among the most famous demonstrations of genetic mutations driving infection outcome is severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID ...

But hundreds of thousands of people globally each year won’t survive their bouts with the flu, and millions more will suffer ...

While vaccines may not fully protect everyone, public health experts say they’re still proven to help prevent serious illness ...

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This story was updated to add new information. A new flu variant is sweeping across the United States, causing millions of reported cases and doubling the number of hospitalizations in a surge doctors ...

The odds are fairly high that everyone around you is currently sick. But you’re not imagining things if it seems like your typical sore throat is worse than usual. A “mystery throat virus” is going ...