Although this year’s flu vaccine doesn’t protect as well against the dominant subclade K strain, doctors still say that ...

That’s why infectious disease experts are telling people to run, not walk, to get this season’s flu shot if they haven’t yet.

Even without a perfect match, public health experts say the flu vaccine offers important protection against serious ...

Flu activity is continuing to climb across the U.S. as hospitalizations rise, updated data from the CDC shows.

It’s that time of year when the leaves are turning golden, there’s a chill in the air and the threat of respiratory viruses like Covid-19, influenza or RSV looms across the country. The US Centers for ...

The surge in cases arrives as four factors threaten to make the illness more severe than the usual, according to doctors.

Subclade K, which is circulating in Arizona, has been dubbed a 'super flu' but some experts say that's not an accurate ...

Stomach viruses can enter your mouth, nose, and eyes. But there’s plenty you can do to prevent getting sick after you come into contact with them. A stomach virus is an infectious microscopic organism ...

Of all the diseases that the U.S. government announced today that it will no longer recommend vaccines against, rotavirus is ...

At least 58 people in the U.S. have been infected by the H5N1 bird flu virus this year, according to federal statistics. All but two of them had been around cows or chickens, two species in which H5N1 ...

Happy Saturday! We hope you’ve been enjoying the first week of the spookiest month of the year. Don’t forget that October is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month; here’s what I’ve been reading lately — ...

As Connecticut endures a wave of a variety of flu strains, other influenza-like illness are also circulating and making ...