This season's influenza vaccines may have been less effective against emergency room visits for some kids compared to last year, a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in England for the first time, the government has said. The single case was identified in Yorkshire during a routine check of livestock on a farm where the ...

March 24 (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday issued recommendations for the composition of influenza shots for the upcoming respiratory virus season, but without input from its independent vaccine ...

Ibitoye is a visiting fellow at the Brown University Pandemic Center. Nuzzo is director of the Pandemic Center and professor of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health.

Michigan officials announced a second bird flu outbreak in Ingham County backyard flocks, but details about the birds and location are limited. The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

A new bird flu outbreak has been confirmed as the virus continues to spread across the U.S. The deadly H7N9 strain was detected on a poultry farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, last week, for the first ...

The flu is on the rise in New Jersey, and with the New Jersey Department of Health noting a spike in reported influenza cases in February, you should know the symptoms, how to protect yourself ...

A rise in seasonal flu and viral illness has been observed in Delhi over the past few weeks. The seasonal transition from winter to summer is one of the possible causes. This transition can also ...

It’s been a brutal flu season. Rates of hospitalizations and outpatient visits for influenza are at a 15-year high, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) abruptly canceled a vaccine advisory meeting where members were slated to discuss influenza vaccine strains. The meeting was scheduled for March 13.