COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.
Influenza levels in the US are the highest they've been in 15 years amid winter weather and a second wave of the virus.
Thankfully, in 2025, the days of lockdowns and quarantines now seem a distant memory for many—even though the physical, ...
It’s not totally clear why flu is hitting so hard this year. One possibility is that it got off to a late start, so the ...
HHS is re-evaluating a nearly $600 million contract with Moderna to develop and test vaccines against flu viruses that could ...
Type A is a family of influenza viruses that includes several strains, including the one that caused the 2009 swine flu pandemic and H5N1 which is currently tearing through dairy and poultry farms ...
Last week, that number was clearly higher than the peak of any winter flu season since 2009-2010, when a swine flu pandemic hit the nation, according to data posted Friday morning by the Centers for ...
In early 2020, as COVID-19 spread across the globe, Australia found itself scrambling. Protective equipment was in short supply, national stockpiles had dwindled, and the vaccine rollout lagged behind ...
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So far this season, the vaccine's protection against flu hospitalization was at least 63% for children and at least 41% for adults. These estimates of effectiveness against hospitalization, released ...
Influenza infections are outpacing COVID-19 cases for the first time since the pandemic. Here are the best ways to stay ...
Since 2002, governments around the world have spent billions of dollars stockpiling neuraminidase inhibitors (NIs) such as Tamiflu® (oseltamivir) and Relenza® (zanamivir) in anticipation of an influen ...