Every fall and winter, medical professionals preach the same message: Get your flu shot. While getting the flu shot always ...

Norovirus, often erroneously called the "stomach flu," sickens an estimated 21 million Americans and 685 million people worldwide every year, and though there is currently no preventive vaccine ...

US to Build New Stockpile of Bird Flu Vaccine for Poultry By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek (Reuters) -The U.S. will rebuild a stockpile of bird flu vaccines for poultry that match the strain of ...

When officers arrived, they found a man who had been shot. A man was shot and killed at a Durham home on Lions Court early Wednesday morning. At 1:30 a.m., officers responded to a shooting at a ...

Genetic sequences of H5N1 bird flu viruses collected from a person in ... who works at the University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization in Saskatoon, Canada, said ...

But how can you book a flu jab, who is eligible for a free vaccine and where is it being offered? You are aged 65 or older; You have certain medical conditions, such as a heart problem ...

How to protect yourself from seasonal illnesses U.S. health officials recommends that everyone 6 months and older get an annual flu vaccination, and they say it’s not too late to get a shot.

More hospital groups around the country are introducing infection control measures with the number of people hospitalised with flu standing at 1,034. This represents an increase of 17 from New ...

Trump takes office, announced on Thursday that it would nearly double the amount of money it was committing to ward off a potential outbreak of bird flu in ... a similar vaccine using mRNA ...

A doctor has shared the benefits of taking a shot a day of a 'superfood' drink to lower your chances of falling ill this cold and flu season. With Brits told that UK flu cases have quadrupled as ...

Though there is no approved vaccine to prevent infection, Dr. Paulson said that Tamiflu, prescribed to treat the regular flu, can also be effective in cases of bird flu and may have some ...

Here's the latest on the efforts to develop a new bird flu vaccine. Several vaccines target H5N1, and the national stockpile has doses of all of them. These shots target different strains of H5N1 ...