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 ...

With the devastating 1918 pandemic in mind, US health officials saw an outbreak in Asia and swung into action. What happened ...

Dr. Todd Ellerin discusses the current risks from bird flu and other diseases, along with the announcement that the U.S. is withdrawing from the World Health Organization.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

She speaks English and a little French. A new bird flu vaccine could be on the horizon after the U.S. has invested approximately $590 million to accelerate its development, the Department of ...

The U.S. government has handed Moderna almost $600 million to accelerate its work on various bird flu vaccines as well as work on mRNA vaccines for other influenza strains with pandemic potential.