The search for a universal flu vaccine has been long and fraught with false starts and dead ends. For more than five years, ...

A new vaccine strategy could spell the end of yearly flu shots, by targeting part of the virus that is much less prone to ...

Federal health officials say the U.S. has the building blocks to make a vaccine to protect humans from bird flu, if needed. But experts warn we're nowhere near prepared for another pandemic.

Dozens of California condors died in northern Arizona from the flu in 2023. USDA approved the emergency use of a vaccine last year to protect the endangered species, which number fewer than 300 birds ...

Current annual flu shots offer protection for roughly six months due to mutations in the virus and varying strains that ...

World Health Organization’s top scientist said this week the recent bird flu outbreak is of “great concern” to public health, and vaccine development to halt the virus is “not where we ...

“Now is the time to take precautions against catching flu, including having a flu vaccine, which is recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).” The flu is an infectious respiratory ...

Mar. 26, 2024 — Simply asking patients to get the flu vaccine, and combining it with helpful video and print messages, is enough to persuade many who visit emergency departments to roll up their ...

Establishing candidate vaccine viruses "are the precursor to moving ... The CDC is currently using the flu surveillance system to monitor for H5N1 activity in people. The systems show no current ...

As the flu season approaches, health-care professionals advise getting a flu vaccine is the best way to safeguard against severe symptoms and spreading the virus. “There are different forms of ...

Both COVID and the flu require new and different vaccine formulas aimed at defeating newly circulating variants of the viruses. The inevitable result of this has been, for most of us, increasing ...

What exactly is the avian flu, and how is it transmitted? What symptoms do infected people experience, and what treatments exist? Is there a vaccine? Should people avoid eating poultry and ...