The flu can also cause a general feeling of fatigue or malaise, Ray says, as well as gastrointestinal issues like diarrhea ...

Abraham ordered the Louisiana health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations during an uptick in influenza cases last ...

Flu season tends to peak from December to February. What to know about getting a flu shot or COVID-19 vaccine.

Every year, countries around the world take samples of the flu viruses that are circulating locally, and they send them to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It helps the U.S. and other ...

With flu season already hitting hard in parts of the world and COVID-19 still going around, public health experts are sounding the alarm that this could be a rough season for respiratory illnesses.

Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains how the World Health Organization decides which strains of influenza end up in annual flu vaccines. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our ...

As we approach cold and flu season, the ongoing government shutdown could cause delays in disease tracking by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC dashboards track the outbreak of ...

In the Southern Hemisphere, the adjusted flu vaccine effectiveness rates against outpatient visits and hospitalizations were 50.4% and 49.7%. Only 21.3% of flu outpatients and 15.9% of hospitalized ...

It's that time of year again. The season when flu (influenza), RSV, COVID-19 and other common respiratory illnesses spread further has arrived with the cooler weather. It's sending many to pharmacy ...

Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, argues the public health agency has been weaponized into a political tool. Reading time 10 ...

A new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) workgroup will review childhood and adolescent immunization schedules, a move that infectious disease experts caution could be another step in ...