Cold and flu viruses can live on surfaces for a few hours to days. Hard surfaces, like stainless steel and plastic, can keep viruses infectious longer. Viruses can spread through respiratory droplets ...

Mice engineered to develop Alzheimer’s-like disease lost cognitive function faster when infected with a common herpesvirus, ...

While children play in winter wonderlands, families nestle together near the fire, and workers attend their annual holiday party, viruses are plotting to give them a cold. As an infectious disease ...

(BPT) – Chilly temperatures and winter weather aren’t the only burden that comes with this time of year — it’s also the peak of cold and flu season. Cold and flu germs can lurk on hundreds of common ...

A new study finds that cold sufferers often leave their germs on TV remotes, salt shakers and other household items, where the germs can actually live for two days or more. Scientists at the ...

The common cold sore virus, which is often caught in childhood, usually stays in the body for life – quietly dormant in the nerves. Now and then, things like stress, illness or injury can trigger it, ...

You might consider yourself a clean freak, but your home is probably less immaculate you think. And once you learn what’s actually lurking inside your home, you may want to double down on disinfection ...

If you get sick all the time, this could be one of the reasons.