Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's cold and flu season again. (Getty Images) (HUIZENG HU via Getty Images) This time of year, there are a number of viruses ...

Flu, COVID-19, the common cold and RSV have similarities, but they differ in their severity, contagiousness and symptoms. Vaccines are available for COVID-19, the flu and RSV. However, there is no ...

It's not easy to tell these health conditions apart based on their symptoms alone. Find out about the differences between these illnesses.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s the time of year when it’s hard to go anywhere without coming into contact with someone who is sneezing or coughing. Right ...

The common cold looks trivial compared with illnesses that fill intensive care units, yet it still knocks out workers, empties classrooms and costs health systems huge sums every winter. Despite ...

When the common cold rips through a household, it can leave a wildly uneven path of symptoms. The same cold-causing rhinovirus that produces barely a sniffle in one person can cause a week of ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Distinguishing between the common cold, flu, RSV, and COVID-19 can be difficult because they share similar symptoms. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that ...

We're at the crossroads of COVID-19, the flu, the common cold, RSV and norovirus. Many of them have different symptoms, but some of those symptoms overlap. "It can be very annoying," said Newport ...

Each winter, communities nationwide face a surge of four main viruses that cause infections and disrupt consumers' daily lives: Influenza, Norovirus, COVID-19 and the Common Cold. Lysol calls this ...

Trying to understand why the common cold hits some people hard – sometimes leading to serious medical complications – but gives other people just the sniffles has been difficult for scientists. But a ...