Medically reviewed by Jane Kim, MD The common cold and diseases like influenza are caused by germs called viruses. These ...

This cold and flu season, you may be looking for clues you're getting better anywhere you can find them, even in the color of your snot.

says Abigail Salyers, PhD, president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Common cold germs, like most viruses, die rapidly, and thus may be less of a threat than you think.

The cold air rushed inside the container ... Pasteur was on a hunt, he later wrote, for “the floating germs of the air.” For this 1885 portrait, Pasteur posed with a rabies-infected piece ...

When a cold hits, most people look for remedies to combat the coughing, sniffling and aching. Although colds tend to be mild and go away on their own, they can be a real nuisance. The common cold ...

Every single day we touch surfaces that are crawling with germs. And the germiest might not be what you would expect. For example, this has more bacteria than this. Now that I've got your ...

But this year that dishonor has been going to other invisible colleagues – cold and flu germs and, of course, the coronavirus, which causes the disease known as COVID-19. If working remotely isn ...

Flu or cold germs can stay on toothbrushes, and if many people use the same bathroom, germs can spread to everyone.