Fact checked by Marley Hall Medically reviewed by Kate Colby, MPH Influenza—commonly known as the flu—is a respiratory virus ...

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 symptoms.

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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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 ...

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 ...

Winter flu in Hong Kong appeared to be more deadly than last year, having claimed nine more lives in the space of three days, pushing up the death toll to 16 this year. Four more children with ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two children under the age of 17 are now dead after getting sick with the flu last week. However, due to privacy concerns, the Oregon Health Authority is not providing ...