After the preschool years, kids still like cartoons, but they want something more complex than straightforward messages about friendship and sharing. They like a bit of conflict, some bad guys (who ...

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A mutation is any detectable and heritable change in nucleotide sequence that causes a change in genotype and is transmitted to daughter cells and succeeding generations. In cancer, the impact on ...

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Wisconsin health officials, who last week reported the state’s first pediatric death from flu this respiratory virus season, said flu activity is very high statewide, up from high last week. They ...

Read on to learn about the different types of flu. Flu, or influenza, is a contagious respiratory infection caused by various flu viruses. Symptoms include muscle aches and soreness, headache ...

A team of faculty members is compiling sequences of genes from infectious diseases into a database for the Food and Drug Administration to help researchers detect new mutations of viruses and create ...

Oral transmission refers to the spreading of microbes through saliva or shared foods and drinks. Saliva-spread diseases can be due to multiple pathogens. Examples of viruses that can be spread through ...

There are hygiene tips to reduce the likelihood of getting sick. Public health officials are warning that the U.S. could be facing a “quademic” — the convergence of four miserable viruses that can ...

Four viruses are circulating in the U.S., sparking concerns of a possible "quademic." Influenza, COVID-19, RSV and norovirus are all at "very high levels" around the country, according to Samuel ...

However, the discovery of this strain raises concern about the H5N1 strains of bird flu currently circulating in the United States: the virus’s rapid mutation when it infects a new host species.