This season's wave of flu cases is arriving later than it has in the past two years. After the COVID-19 pandemic, annual waves of influenza during the colder months increased weeks earlier than ...

A 13-year-old girl in Canada became so sick with H5N1, or bird flu, in late 2024 that she had to be put on a ventilator. Around the same time, a senior in Louisiana was diagnosed with the first ...

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Hospital admissions in Scotland caused by flu have increased by 12% in a week, new figures show. Public Health Scotland (PHS) has described the amount of laboratory confirmed influenza this winter ...

An average of 4,469 flu patients were in beds in England each day last week, including 211 in critical care. This is up 17 per cent from 3,818 the previous week, when 184 were in critical care.

A warning has been issued after numbers of cases of people hospitalised with flu quadrupled in just weeks. The number of people in hospital with flu in England is continuing to rise and is more ...

A patient who'd been hospitalized in Louisiana with severe illness from H5N1 bird flu has died — the first human death from this type of avian influenza in the U.S., the Louisiana Department of ...

Dec. 13, 2024 — Influenza or flu virus remains infectious in refrigerated raw milk for up to five days, according to a new study. The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a ...

Dec. 13, 2024 — Influenza or flu virus remains infectious in refrigerated raw milk for up to five days, according to a new study. The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a ...

The US just recorded the first death from severe bird flu. Experts say it's not too early, or unreasonable, to prepare for the worst. For decades successive waves of bird flu infections have ...

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Public Health Wales says fewer elderly people and healthcare workers have had the flu vaccine this winter A spike in flu cases that has added to winter pressures in Welsh hospitals is the result ...