Research shows respiratory viruses like flu and COVID can significantly increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes, ...

And rates of heart attacks and strokes can rise in winter for a number of reasons. Factors such as low temperature, less physical activity, more time spent indoors—perhaps with indoor air pollutants ...

MPV tends to hit hardest in young children, older adults and people with weakened immune systems. A virologist explains.

New research highlights the increased risk of heart attacks and strokes triggered by common respiratory viruses like flu and ...

Overall, the influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID) were the main triggers. If you catch the flu, we found the risk of a heart attack goes up almost 5.4 times and a stroke by ...

Mosquitoes carrying the virus were first identified in Colorado in 2003. That year resulted in the most human cases of West ...