It’s not totally clear why flu is hitting so hard this year. One possibility is that it got off to a late start, so the ...

Still, each year experts closely monitor flu patterns all over the world and try to predict how the viruses might mutate, said Dr. Sean Liu, an associate professor of infectious disease at the ...

said that flu spread normally begins spreading in the southern states. "This is due to a combination of factors, including weather patterns, travel habits and population density, which can create ...

The United States faces an extraordinary flu season as research uncovers unprecedented ... challenging existing immunity patterns and straining public health resources. With higher infection ...

States have also been monitoring changes in bird flu patterns by tracking the virus in wastewater. The U.S. has long avoided vaccination of poultry because many of its trading partners will not ...

Doctors around the US have anecdotally reported an uptick of children critically ill with the flu developing severe, ...

Recent CDC findings show indoor cats contracted bird flu from dairy workers, highlighting new transmission pathways and preventive measures ...

which steered them away from the idea that wild birds might have carried in the flu virus. Then, the researchers checked the weather patterns for the week the chickens got sick. There had been a ...

The rarity of that pandemic was that people worldwide were diagnosed during the summer months, well outside of the typical seasonal flu pattern. The WHO tracked the H1N1 virus in 74 countries and ...

which may be influencing the unusually fast-paced and large outbreaks of bird flu that have been occurring for the past half decade or so. “Climate change clearly affected patterns of migrations, and ...

The current bird flu epidemic should concern us all. Climate change-related temperature changes, food shortages, and rising ...

said that flu spreads normally in the southern states. “This is due to a combination of factors, including weather patterns, travel habits, and population density, which can create ideal ...