Over the past week, a series of developments have reaffirmed the imminent danger of an H5N1 “bird flu” pandemic, for which ...

Outpatient health care visits for flu-like illnesses are at their highest levels in 15 years, according to data updated ...

By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar ...

The flu can also cause a general feeling of fatigue or malaise, Ray says, as well as gastrointestinal issues like diarrhea ...

Vaccination rates were, however, only “moderate” – not because Americans saw vaccination as problematic, but because they did not see influenza as a threat. Nearly 40 years had dulled memories of the ...

With data showing a significant rise in flu cases nationwide, medical experts are describing it as the worst flu season since ...

Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.

The U.S. prioritized vaccinating military personnel over the public in 1957. Here, members of a West German Navy vessel hand ...

Over the past 60 years, the influenza virus has continued to drift and shift. In 1968, a shift once again caused a pandemic.