The winter flu season features two types of influenza. Here's what you need to know about them and how they differ.

Influenza cases remain high nationally, and Atlantic Canada is bracing for peak of rising RSV cases despite declining rates ...

Adult and pediatric patients who received 2023-2024 influenza vaccines exhibited reduced risk for influenza-associated encounters across care settings.

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years.

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Kate Colby, MPH, is a public health expert with extensive experience in infectious disease epidemiology. Marley Hall is a writer and fact-checker for Health.com specializing in medical and health ...

The flu is linked to about 3,000-49,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations each year in the U.S. The seasonal flu vaccine was created to help prevent these epidemics. Type A flu or influenza A ...

The influenza vaccine is fully reimbursed by Health Insurance for people at riskfor patients with long-term illness (LTD) for whom the vaccine is recommended or as part of maternity insurance.

A new bird flu vaccine ... if other influenza strains of concern were to emerge. The money will be used to design and test another vaccine too, this time for H7N9—another form of bird flu ...

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.

Florida and Georgia, with some of the lowest reported minimum vaccination rates for kindergartners, allow parents to exempt their children by submitting a form with the child's school or day care.

Two patients who presented at two different hospitals ... virus has prompted health authorities to issue a warning to check vaccination records. One person went to the Woodstock Hospital emergency ...