This was also the first year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that deaths from flu surpassed deaths from COVID.

Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

Washington state recorded 388 influenza-related deaths between late 2024 and early 2025. Here’s why this winter’s flu season was so severe.

The emerging technology offers an alternative to conventional UVC light, which is used to sanitize surfaces but can harm the ...

The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections ...

Immigration raids and threats have undermined efforts to prevent and detect bird flu infections among farmworkers, ...

The "next pandemic" is not "theoretical" but an "epidemiological certainty," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

Apr. 8, 2025 — Scientists have pioneered an influenza virus vector-based nasal spray vaccine platform and developed a nasal spray H5N1 avian influenza vaccine. During the early COVID-19 pandemic ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive ...

A charity has called for flu vaccines to be reinstated for 50 to 64-year-olds after the worst flu death season in over four ...