This year, flu trends look to be closely in line with the 2019 to 2020 season, which also reached peak levels around the New Year. Some of the highest levels of influenza are now in Western states ...

With cases of the flu on the rise, we asked experts what you need to know about an antiviral medication that can ease ...

exceeding the 199 deaths recorded in 2019-2020. So far this flu season, 23,000 people of all ages have been hospitalized because of the flu. Skepticism about vaccine safety is not solely focused on ...

The number of kids dying from influenza in the 2023-2024 season has set a new record for a regular flu season, after one new ...

Up until the 2019-2020 flu season, cell-based vaccines were always the end result of cultures that originated as egg-grown vaccines. But this year marks the first completely egg-free, cell-based ...

Juvenile flu vaccine rates have dropped over the last five years. At the same point during the 2019-20 season, 48.4% of children got vaccinated. By the end of the season, vaccination rates reached ...

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Flu season tends to peak in early January. This year’s surge has been blamed on the particularly infectious AH1 variant which has not been around since the 2018/2019 flu season. Health Service ...

estimates that 46,000 children were hospitalized with the flu during the 2018-2019 flu season. They also estimate that since 2010, flu-related hospitalizations among children younger than 5 years old ...