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Local health officials are warning about a second wave of the flu, with rising infection rates reported by the CDC.

With a late season surge in flu infections, many school districts across the country are canceling in-person classes; opting ...

About 8% of people in the United States get sick each flu season. Getting your annual flu shot is one of the best ways to prevent the flu. Why Does Flu Season Peak in the Fall and Winter?

Vaccines are proving to be essential when the flu gets serious in patients, according to Dowell. “[The] vaccine matches pretty well [to the strain], but it’s just keeping people from dying ...

The first suspected case of bird flu was reported in Philadelphia on Wednesday ... "If you see a bird acting funny or it's deceased, just stay away from it and contact the state and let them ...

Not all types of flu are the same. Some types of flu can make you very ill, while others cause milder symptoms. Read on to learn about the different types of flu. Flu, or influenza, is a ...

The post-holiday influenza spike across New Jersey shows no signs of slowing down, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports a "very high" number of reported influenza cases.

That happened in 1976, when President Gerald Ford ordered mass vaccination against swine flu to head off a pandemic. More than 40 million Americans received the vaccine in record time, but the ...

A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...

Updated COVID-19 vaccines are available, as well as annual flu shots for people 6 months and older. For those 60 and older or for people who are pregnant, you may want to get the RSV vaccine.