Flu season comes around every year. And so should your plan to get your flu shot. The shot, also known as the influenza vaccine, is a vaccine that protects against the influenza viruses.

Scientists Design Workaround That Improves Response to Flu Vaccine Dec. 19, 2024 — Stitching together four molecules found in the standard flu vaccine ensures an immune response to all of them ...

and this is true across the country." California is also being hit hard. San Diego in particular is seeing a steady rise in flu cases and hospitalizations, Dr. Francesca Torriani, an infectious ...

Dec. 13, 2024 — Influenza or flu virus remains infectious in refrigerated raw milk for up to five days, according to a new study. The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a ...

More than 126,800 birds in New York have been affected by the avian flu since 2022, including thousands of new infections uncovered in recent months in New York parks, commercial flocks and ...

As California’s Central Valley makes headlines for the growing number of people testing positive for the bird flu from exposure to dairy cows, Rais Vohra, MD, professor at UC San Francisco, Fresno and ...

But this time it isn’t only the threat of COVID-19 that’s sending students and staff members home. Flu cases in the area have risen dramatically in recent weeks, as have cases of COVID-19 and ...

Thousands of new bird flu cases have emerged in recent months among New York flocks, including in parks and even backyard coops. The spread set off a fresh round of public health alerts among ...

Between 500 and 1,000 suspected cases of H5N1, also called avian flu, have been reported in Massachusetts birds. Sharing scientific data is important to track the outbreak. Just as Massachusetts ...

The health ministry is sounding the alarm over a rapid increase in the number of seasonal flu cases. The number of new influenza cases reported from Dec. 9 to Dec. 15 at around 5,000 designated ...

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, M.D. discusses the best practices to reduce your risk of contracting the flu or COVID during the holiday season. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, M.D. discusses the best ...