However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clarified the Kansas outbreak isn’t the largest in modern history.

Dr. Robert Jacobson, medical director of Mayo Clinic’s Primary Care Immunization Program, says there are tools to help reduce the risk of becoming severely ill from these respiratory infections.

People spend approximately 90 percent of their time indoors where most respiratory infections—a leading cause of death ...

Respiratory viruses are continuing to spread across the United States and such activity "is expected to continue for several ...

As winter takes hold in many parts of the world, there is a predictable rise in acute respiratory infections (ARIs). These increases are typically driven by seasonal epidemics of common pathogens ...