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 ...

Last year there were 204 flu cases from Jan. 26 to Feb. 1. This year it's 907. Boone County already more than half way to last year's season total.

The U.S. influenza rate is at or near its highest level in at least 15 years and is still on the rise, the U.S. Centers for ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University are working on a novel approach to influenza vaccination that could provide broad protection against multiple strains — including the H5N1 bird flu ...

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 ...

She speaks English and a little French. Bird flu continues to infect animals and humans in the United States, with symptoms that some may struggle to discern from human influenza. Scientists have ...

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 ...

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 ...