Cold and flu season is in full swing in Chicago, with cases of influenza, RSV and other respiratory viruses spiking in recent ...

Two infants have died of the flu in the first two weeks of the year, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health.

An increase in cases of COVID, RSV, norovirus and the flu is being referred to as the "winter quad-demic." The Chicago Department of Public Health said two children under the age of 2 have died due to ...

Bird collisions with windows at McCormick Place dropped by 95% since last summer. How's that for some good news? Why it ...

Bird Flu Virus Is One Mutation Away from Binding More Efficiently to Human Cells Canada’s first human case of bird flu has ...

Health officials in San Francisco announced Friday that they are investigating a presumptive case of H5N1 bird flu that was found in a child who lives in the city.

America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.

Health officials in Chicago confirmed the city’s first pediatric seasonal flu-related deaths of 2025 this week. According to ...

This announcement from the Chicago Department of Public Health comes as respiratory viruses continue to spread across the ...

A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

The Sun-Times visited 14 stores in various neighborhoods from Big Oaks to Edgewater, Morgan Park to Midway, and Bucktown and ...

For more than 40 years, migrating birds have been crashing into McCormick Place Lakeside Center. The glassy, low-lying ...