Flu deaths have surpassed COVID-19 in California for the first time since the pandemic, with concerns over low vaccination rates and a likely severe flu season.

State officials are blaming highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), also known as bird flu, for causing the deaths of wild waterfowl in Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton, Starke and Benton counties ...

Stay home when you feel sick. Statewide, vaccination rates for the flu remain low for children and adults as only 30% of eligible Virginians reported getting a flu vaccine this season.

Doctors in the Louisville Metro area said they are trying to address issues that prevent people from getting the flu shot.

Those who are concerned about the current situation regarding the coronavirus flu should look up the article published by Richard A. Hobday and John W. Cason in the October 2009 “American Journal ...

Bird flu (H5N1) primarily affects birds but has spread to mammals, including humans. While human transmission remains rare, ...

The Nature of Viruses Viruses are microscopic entities that require a host's cellular machinery to replicate. Unlike bacteria ...

Hong Kong has recorded 88 flu deaths since the current influenza season began early this month, up by nearly 30 per cent from the 68 fatalities in the same period during last winter’s surge ...

In early January 2025, a person in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe respiratory symptoms died, marking the first U.S. bird flu death. Health officials said the person was older than 65 ...

As a result, early adult death rates in 2023 were about 70 percent higher than they might have been if death rates had not begun to rise about a decade before the pandemic. The researchers ...

Six flu-related deaths were reported in Arkansas over the past week, raising this season's death toll to 21, the state Department of Health reported Wednesday. The department reported that the ...

The flu positivity rate from lab tests across the country has ... (Credit: CDC) There were 16 pediatric deaths during the third week of January, pushing the total number of pediatric deaths ...