The Dead Children's Playground is a real place next to Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville. It's also the subject of a new fiction novel by Author James Kaine.

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

from the 1918 Spanish flu to the latest 2024 H5N1 strains. The University of Melbourne's Dr. Oanh Nguyen, Senior Research Fellow at the Doherty Institute and co-author of the study, explained the ...

For a second time this season, the flu is surging, with at least 41 states reporting high or very high levels of the virus. Dr. Rabia de Latour, a gastroenterologist at NYU Langone Health ...

(NEXSTAR) – Flu cases are surging across the country – more than half of states are now at “very high” levels, the most severe designation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Levels of influenza nationwide are now at the highest they have been since the peak of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, according to figures published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Cases of the flu viruses continue to surge across the U.S. and California, placing a strain on healthcare systems and causing tens of millions of illnesses and thousands of deaths each year.

(NEXSTAR) – With all the people coughing, sneezing and calling out sick around you, it’s probably pretty clear we’re in the thick of flu season. Flu activity remains “very high” in most ...

Bird flu has hit the zoo. Over a dozen ducks and wild birds at the Queens and Bronx zoos have died, likely all due to the avian flu sweeping the country. Three ducks at the Queens Zoo died after ...

The same strain is linked to the bird flu patient who died in Louisiana. A second type of bird flu has been found in dairy cows for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on ...

Bird flu, or H5N1, has been detected in the U.S. in birds and some mammals, and has sickened more than 65 people, killing one. The virus is considered highly dangerous to humans because it is ...

Here, members of a West German Navy vessel hand over a jar of vaccine to the U.S. transport ship General Patch for 134 people sick with flu. Henry Brueggemann/AP Photo However, Americans were not ...