MAJOR NHS TRUST TURNS AWAY A&E PATIENTS 13 TIMES IN A WEEK

As cold snap adds to pressure, Worcestershire trust is forced to divert patients from A E at two hospitals... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA'S FLU SEASON HAS U.S. HEALTH OFFICIALS BRACING FOR A BAD WINTER, AND WANTING A NEW VACCINE

As we prepare for a potentially severe influenza season, we must consider whether our current vaccines can be improved, Fauci and his coauthors wrote... READ MORE›

FLU VACCINE USED THIS YEAR 'WASN'T UP TO IT'

Influenza NSW Health Minister says current vaccine 'not up to the job' after deadly flu season... READ MORE›

NHS URGES 1.4M STAFF TO HAVE FLU JAB TO REDUCE RISK OF EPIDEMIC

In another previously unused tactic, NHS England bosses are writing to all 234 NHS trusts telling them to do much more to ensure staff have the jab... READ MORE›

OXFORD RESEARCHERS TEAM TO TEST UNIVERSAL FLU VACCINE

Significantly, the new vaccine works by stimulating the immune system to boost virus-killing T-cells, instead of antibodies... READ MORE›

NSW TEEN NATHAN BROWN DIES FROM COMPLICATIONS DURING HORROR FLU SEASON

As of September 15, 288 influenza-associated deaths have been registered or reported to state public health units, a spokesman for NSW Health told AAP... READ MORE›

2. WHAT HAPPENED IN CHINA OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS?

As well as in mainland China, infections have been detected in Hong Kong, Macau and among travelers who had been in the mainland... READ MORE›

PROTECT BABIES FROM FLU BY GETTING OLDER SIBLINGS VACCINATED,A PARENTS ADVISED

In 2013, a new flu vaccine nasal spray for children aged two to 16 was introduced in the UK... READ MORE›

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BILL GATES: BIOTERRORISM COULD KILL MORE THAN NUCLEAR WAR -- BUT NO ONE IS READY TO DEAL WITH IT

In his New England Journal of Medicine article, Gates said the United States's last epidemic simulation took place in 2001... READ MORE›

30MN PEOPLE DEAD IN A YEAR

Gates said the link between health security and international security is underestimated adding that governments are not paying enough attention to this threat... READ MORE›

BIRD FLU HITS FRENCH FOIE GRAS INDUSTRY AT BUSIEST TIME OF YEAR

This virus has never been detected in humans, unlike other strains, but millions of farm birds were slaughtered in Asia in 2014 before it arrived in Europe... READ MORE›

'LOW SEVERITY' BIRD FLU CASE AT HAMPSHIRE FARM

A 1km poultry movement restriction zone has been imposed and the birds at the commercial chicken breeding farm will be culled, Defra said... READ MORE›

BIRD FLU FORCES CULL OF 22 MILLION POULTRY

Previous cases In 2014, South Korea had culled 14 million birds amid a bird flu outbreak... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN ADULTS MISSING OUT ON FREE VACCINATIONS

Half of Australian adults don't receive government-funded jabs for influenza, pneumonia and shingles, the Vaccine Myopia report found... READ MORE›

1 PERSON DEAD OF FLU, 115 CONFIRMED CASES SO FAR IN OTTAWA

From Sept. 1 to Jan. 3 there were 115 confirmed cases of influenza in the city, according to Ottawa Public Health... READ MORE›

DISSOLVABLE PATCH OFFERS RADICAL PAIN-FREE ALTERNATIVE TO FLU INJECTION, STUDY FINDS

John McCauley, director of the Worldwide Influenza Centre at the Francis Crick Institute in London, said the research could lead to higher uptake rates of vaccines... READ MORE›

MERS, EBOLA, BIRD FLU: SCIENCE'S BIG MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

Mers ebola bird flu science's big missed opportunities... READ MORE›

FLU LEAVING SOME KIDS TEMPORARILY UNABLE TO WALK

The number of people suffering Type B flu is on the rise in Australia with children among those to suffer the symptoms most severely... READ MORE›

INDIA SWINE FLU DEATH TOLL RISES ABOVE 1,000 THIS YEAR

India appears to be in the grip of a swine flu outbreak with 1,094 recorded deaths over the past eight months, said an official report on Wednesday... READ MORE›

EBOLA: WHO UNDER FIRE OVER RESPONSE TO EPIDEMIC

Unexpected And the very planning that went into preparing for an influenza pandemic seems have to worked against the WHO during West Africa's Ebola outbreak... READ MORE›

ON CLIMATE CHANGE NOT A SCIENTIST NOT ENOUGH FOR SOME U.S. REPUBLICANS

12 and is recovering from the illness in self-isolation, said the Public Health Agency of Canada... READ MORE›

WHO TO HOLD EMERGENCY MEETING MONDAY ON ZIKA VIRUS

But the WHO never declared a public health emergency with other viruses, such as MERS, or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Adalja said... READ MORE›

MORE THAN 23,000 CHICKENS TO BE CULLED AS BIRD FLU FOUND IN SUFFOLK

More than 23,000 chickens are to be culled at a farm in Suffolk in the UK's seventh confirmed case of bird flu this year... READ MORE›

PLANT-BASED VACCINES CHALLENGE BIG PHARMA FOR $3 BILLION FLU MARKET

But they could threaten the pharma giants that dominate flu vaccine production... READ MORE›

BIRD FLU BAN IS LIFTED ON FREE RANGE POULTRY, HEALTH CHIEFS CONFIRM

Bird owners should continue to remain vigilant, monitor their birds for any signs of disease and implement strict disease control measures... READ MORE›

NARCOLEPSY CASES LINKED TO FLU VACCINE SUBJECT TO NEW COMPENSATION DISPUTE

Government lawyers are seeking to block compensation payments to people who developed the devastating sleep disorder narcolepsy as a result of a faulty swine flu vaccine... READ MORE›

HOSPITAL CLAIMS IT WARNED LAST MONTH OF MUTATED FLU STRAIN NOT COVERED BY JAB

Public Health England and the WHO are being urged to use a broader spectrum of vaccines in future against winter flu... READ MORE›

'FREE RANGE' CHRISTMAS TURKEYS COOPED UP IN BARNS UNDER EMERGENCY BIRD FLU MEASURES

This is a precautionary measure to help reduce the risk from a strain of avian flu circulating in mainland Europe... READ MORE›

BRITAIN AND US STEP UP MEASURES TO COMBAT SPREAD OF VIRUS

Ebola crisis Britain and US step up measures to combat spread of virus... READ MORE›

THINKING ABOUT GETTING THE 2016 FLU VACCINE? HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The influenza vaccine is formulated annually because seasonal flu viruses undergo continuous genetic mutation and the vaccine needs to match the major circulating strains... READ MORE›

HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS BIRD FLU STRAIN FOUND AT DUTCH FARM

Agricultural inspectors started destroying the 150,000 chickens at the farm in the village of Hekendorp, and banned poultry transport across the whole of the Netherlands... READ MORE›

EXPERTS CRITICISE WHO DELAY IN SOUNDING ALARM OVER EBOLA OUTBREAK

The most egregious failure was by WHO in the delay in sounding the alarm, said Prof Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute... READ MORE›

FLU WARNING ISSUED AS REPORTED CASES SOAR

Swine flu is only one of four strains of influenza circulating, according to Robert Booy from the University of Sydney... READ MORE›

WHAT WILL THE NEXT EPIDEMIC BE? WORLD NOT PREPARED FOR ANOTHER DISEASE LIKE EBOLA OR ZIKA, STUDY FINDS

A study published Monday in the medical journal BMJ concluded that the world is collectively grossly underprepared for future disease outbreaks... READ MORE›

FLU SHOT PROTECTS AGAINST HEART ATTACKS, STUDY SHOWS

The study should include the benefit of preventing heart attacks in a proportion of people, she said... READ MORE›

BIRD FLU CASES SURGED THIS SEASON, BUT HUMAN RISK REMAINS LOW

The number of people infected in China exceed previous seasons, said Dr. Wenqing Zhang, head of the Global Influenza Program at the WHO... READ MORE›

Public health experts say the probability of a pandemic --a worldwide epidemic of a new and deadly disease -- is 100 percent... READ MORE›

Last month one woman in Hong Kong became infected with the virus after she traveled to a wet market in mainland China... READ MORE›