NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years.

The Springfield Greene County Flu Dashboard shows a surge in the flu in the last month. Based on doctor’s office visits -- it ...

Illinois is seeing a "notable increase" in hospital admissions for flu cases, according to state health officials, as levels of respiratory viruses continue to tick up. But which type of flu is ...

D octors expect a flu season peak to hit around mid-February and they are urging the public to get vaccinated. With several upper respiratory viruses going around, experts suggest ...

Not all types of flu are the same. Some types of flu can make you very ill, while others cause milder symptoms. Read on to learn about the different types of flu. Flu, or influenza, is a ...

TUESDAY, Jan. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is awarding the pharmaceutical company Moderna $590 million to continue developing a vaccine to ...

The U.S. government has handed Moderna almost $600 million to accelerate its work on various bird flu vaccines as well as work on mRNA vaccines for other influenza strains with pandemic potential.

The funding, which follows the $176 million the government awarded Moderna in June 2024, aims to get mRNA vaccines ready before bird flu strains currently circulating in the wild and on farms can ...

The United States has stores of vaccines against an earlier variant of the bird flu and is now making more that should be even more effective against the variants currently circulating ...

The misery of the common stomach flu may be coming to an end. Pharmaceutical company Moderna has launched a large-scale Phase III trial that will test out a vaccine against norovirus, a frequent ...

A deadly bird flu outbreak has devastated U.S. poultry farms ... In response to the escalating outbreak, the USDA has announced plans to stockpile a new poultry vaccine targeting the D1.1 strain.

The flu vaccine, for everyone ages 6 months and older, is crucial, Dr. Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, a medical epidemiologist in CDC’s Influenza Division, previously told USA TODAY. While it won ...