After COVID, a new illness is spreading in China, and this time it's affecting children. According to reports, there is now an outbreak of mysterious pneumonia in North China, leading to children being admitted to hospitals.

Several respiratory illnesses are co-circulating in China this year after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions.

Former Olympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton has been hospitalized with pneumonia and has been in an intensive care unit at a Texas hospital for over a week.

Doctors say Health Canada's approval of an RSV vaccine for people age 60 and older will save lives. Canadians will be able to receive the shot in late fall or early winter.

Hundreds of wildfires have left much of the country blanketed in smoke and smog that brings real health risks — especially for vulnerable children and seniors, pregnant people, and those with asthma and heart or lung disease.

Hundreds of wildfires have left much of the country blanketed in smoke and smog that brings real health risks — especially for vulnerable children and seniors, pregnant people, and those with asthma and heart or lung disease.

FDA Approves Pfizer's Pneumococcal Vaccine

Public health officials are urging Canadians to get their flu shots to avoid potentially straining hospitals ahead of the busy holiday season.

Deaths from previously treatable infections such as pneumonia are rising as antibiotic resistance grows worldwide.

UNICEF warns that about one million children in Afghanistan are facing the threat of acute malnutrition.

Former Soviet states are suffering a second wave of cases - since lockdown restrictions were eased two months ago.

Dr. Samir Gupta says the drug remdesivir can be helpful for patients who are very sick but not so sick that they need a ventilator.

Nicaragua has confirmed 25 cases and eight deaths, but rights groups and experts believe the numbers are far higher.

Results from retesting pneumonia patients is discovering cases of COVID-19 from late 2019, days and weeks before the virus was officially reported.

The World Health Organization has defended its handling of the coronavirus outbreak after President Donald Trump orders withdrawal of U.S. funding for the organization.

Senegal locks down, but with limited access to clean water, fears rise about how far infections could spread.

'We're not panicking,' says respirologist Dr. Samir Gupta, but health-care workers are concerned about PPEafter seeing similar health-care systems reach their breaking point.

As infections spike across Europe, Italy, Spain and UK's healthcare systems struggle to cope after medics fall ill.

Nigerian government announces series of measures to contain the spread of the virus following a sharp rise in cases and its first death.

Doctors say the government is trying to cover up the outbreak in Russia by changing the official cause of death.

The numbers include 546 new deaths in Italy's epicentre Lombardy region, as cities across the world are locked down.

Mosques close, public gatherings are banned and the military deploys mobile clinics as Senegal edges closer to a full lockdown.

Death toll from coronavirus outbreak in Italy increases 13.5 percent as no sign of letup in killer contagion.

Russia has so far kept its amount of coronavirus cases low during the pandemic, but some say many cases of COVID-19 are being labelled something else.