Despite variations by age group and influenza virus type, the 2023-2024 influenza vaccine was protective against outpatient illness in pediatric and adult patients.

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals — mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive ...

Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One Facebook ...

One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in the United States was reported in a Texas dairy worker. There have ...

State health officials say there were notified that the child had died on March 19. The child tested positive for influenza B ...

Maternal influenza vaccination significantly reduces adverse outcomes, including maternal mortality, prematurity, and low ...

Recommendations on the strain composition of influenza virus vaccines for the 2025-2026 US season have been issued by FDA.

Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...

In two recent interviews on Fox News, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed concerns about H5N1 avian influenza in ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems might be primed to fend off a worse case, research finds.

H7N9 — is detected in at a poultry farm; scientists learn that past human flu exposure may provide some immunity to H5N1.

In the positive news that came out this week, a team of international researchers found that ferrets exposed to a common ...