People who received at least one influenza vaccine were 40% less likely than their non-vaccinated peers to develop Alzheimer’s disease over the course of four years, according to a new study from UTHealth Houston.
A bird flu virus that’s sweeping across the country is rapidly becoming the country’s worst...
Data from the most recently reported week shows a 7.7% flu positivity rate for samples tested in laboratories throughout the country, one of the highest flu-positivity rates of the season.
So far, this flu season in the United States there has been 43,153 documented influenza cases, according to a recent report from the CDC.
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As flu season progresses, so does the chorus of advice, professional and otherwise, to drink plenty of fluids and take fever-reducing medications, like acetaminophen, ibuprofen or aspirin.
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported a novel swine flu case in an adult in California. The patient, who had direct contact with pigs prior to getting sick, has since recovered without hospitalization.
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Flu activity is sporadic across the country and, currently, there are no states with high levels of Influenza.
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“The percentage of outpatient visits due to respiratory illness decreased nationally again this week and is now below the baseline,” the most recent CDC FluView report says.
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Researchers have found that children who receive years of season-specific flu vaccines develop antibodies that also provide broader protection against new strains, including those capable of causing pandemics.
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Influenza A viruses are the predominant flu strain this season, according to the latest data from the US CDC.
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The New York Times reports that the famous medical researcher Johan Hultin has died. His discovery in the 1950s of a frozen victim of the 1918 flu pandemic, in Alaska, gave scientists the opportunity to map the virus’s genetic material.
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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, cases of the novel coronavirus have far outpaced all strains of influenza, marking some of the most remarkably quiet flu seasons on record.
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Despite opposition from The World Health Organization, officials in Spain are calling for governments to start dealing with COVID-19 as if it were any other endemic respiratory virus.
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Flu vaccination protected children against serious flu illness even when they were infected with a flu virus that was antigenically different from the vaccine virus, according to a CDC study.
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A new bird flu outbreak has a greater risk of spreading to humans due to the number of variants, according to health experts.
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