The worker are the first presumed human cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza, H5N1, under investigation in Washington ...

U.S. flu vaccines were redesigned after an influenza strain disappeared globally. Physical distancing and masking during the ...

It’s safe to get your flu shot and COVID shot at the same time, if you choose, and in the same arm or different arms. In ...

They found that a specific type of immune cell, called T follicular helper cells, indirectly controls the anti-influenza response. ... Aug. 19, 2024 — The avian influenza virus needs to mutate ...

Study found that influenza vaccination is highly effective in preventing infection and hospitalization in children, though ...

A third close contact of a patient in Missouri who was hospitalized ... of the population having respiratory symptoms not due to influenza,” Osterholm added. In a hospital setting, workers ...

As more farm workers get sick with avian influenza, the US federal government is putting $72 million toward strengthening its ...

In a nationwide randomized clinical implementation trial, electronically delivered letter-based nudges markedly increased influenza vaccination compared with usual care among young and middle-aged ...

Cows in the Central Valley are dying so quickly from bird flu that they are overwhelming standard protocols meant to dispose ...

In late August, a patient (whose identity hasn’t been released) was hospitalized with gastrointestinal issues. After testing positive for influenza type A, the patient’s sample was sent to a ...

Federal agencies are studying a case of human avian influenza in which the infected person did not have contact with affected ...