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Though enterovirus D68 primarily causes acute respiratory illness, in rare cases, it can lead to a neurologic compilation involving limb weakness.

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned of a new wave of enterovirus cases that threats children. The viral infection is also known to cause a rare paralysis similar to that of the polio virus.

The total number of monkeypox cases in Massachusetts since mid-May is now 157, officials say.

The CDC recently released a health alert after they noted a surge of infection in neonates and young infants since May. Here are the symptoms and measures to prevent kids from getting the infection.

The CDC issued a health alert last week warning parents that babies may be at risk for a potentially dangerous pathogen\u00a0called the parechovirus.

The state’s Commission for Human Rights has claimed that visually impaired voters were not provided sufficient accommodation for the U.S. House primary race, the state’s first all-mail election.

Pfizer and Merck have each won FDA approvals in the past year for new pneumococcal vaccines, but GSK aims to top both of them with its $2.1 billion acquisition of Affinivax. That biotech’s Phase 3-ready vaccine candidate addresses more bacterial strains than any pneumococcal vaccines currently available.

Dr. Rick Malley, an infectious disease specialist at Boston Children's Hospital, talks about the World Health Organization's announcement that it believes nearl...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said the U.S. has until June to decide whether the public needs new COVID-19 shots to target different virus variants.

Novel types of jabs could enhance T-cell immunity or protect against emerging strains