Culler, MD, a primary care pediatrician with Nemours Children’s Health, Florida. While most people start to feel better after ...

An upper respiratory infection (URI) is inflammation in the sinuses ... You are likely to be less contagious at this time, depending on factors like how long you were sick or how sick you were. If you ...

Q: I’ve been seeing a lot of news stories about whooping cough. Is there really another illness that we need worry about?

RSV is a common upper respiratory infection that infects nearly everyone ... Additionally, RSV is extremely contagious, nearly twice as contagious as Influenza according to research in Journal ...

Table 3 Admissions to Infirmary for Acute Upper-respiratory Infections * Spring Term ... eight instances of acute contagious disease including rubella, epidemic parotitis, varicella, pertussis ...

Highly contagious, the flu virus passes through ... and intestinal problems, as well as upper respiratory tract infections in about 5 percent to 15 percent of the population.

While they are common and can be a nuisance, ear infections are not contagious. However, the viruses and bacteria that cause ...

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If either you or your partner has a cold, there are several steps you can take to reduce the risk of spreading it: Practice ...

A potable water shortage and a toxic stew of sewage and other pollutants that Hurricane Helene’s flooding left behind have ...

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These are part of a “common basket of symptoms” that are also typical to other upper respiratory ... You are most contagious with COVID-19 when you are in the midst of peak infection (days ...