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FLU EPIDEMIC GETS WORSE JUST IN TIME FOR FUNDING SHUTDOWN
The Department of Health and Human Services has said it would furlough half its workers and suspend the CDC's influenza program... READ MORE›
FLU SEASON GETS DEADLIER, AND A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN WILL MAKE THINGS WORSE
Influenza B, which is the strain that sickened the Connecticut boy, can hit school-age children... READ MORE›
'THERE ARE LOTS OF OLD PEOPLE WAITING ON TROLLEYS IN THERE, IT'S JUST TERRIBLE TO SEE THEM'
Meanwhile, Stephen McMahon of patient advocate group the Irish Patients' Association said it was heartbreaking that children were left waiting for hospital beds... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS SEEK SUPER-SHOT FOR FLU 100 YEARS AFTER PANDEMIC KILLED 50 MILLION
Fauci is designating a universal flu vaccine a top priority for NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases... READ MORE›
5 MORE DOGS TEST POSITIVE FOR CANINE INFLUENZA IN CANADA
Five dogs in Canada that came into contact with two others with H3N2 canine influenza have also tested positive... READ MORE›
FLU ACTIVITY IN CANADA 'HIGH' AND CLIMBING
Flu activity in Canada 'high' and continuing to rise, latest public health numbers say... READ MORE›
BAD FLU SEASON CATCHES HOSPITALS OFF GUARD
Some cities, like Calgary, say it's the worst flu season on record... READ MORE›
'JAPANESE FLU': STRAIN NOT INCLUDED IN THIS YEAR'S JAB IS SPREADING
A strain of flu that isn't included in this year's main flu vaccine is spreading, according to Public Health England PHE ... READ MORE›
CITY OF LIGHT FINGERS: LATEST PARIS JEWEL HEIST HITS RITZ HOTEL
Ritz jewel heist latest in string of multimillion-dollar paris robberies... READ MORE›
AUSSIE FLU: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AFTER FATALITIES REPORTED IN IRELAND
Australian flu is the name given to flu subtype influenza A H3N2 ... READ MORE›
'DESPERATE TIMES' FOR OVERCROWDED HOSPITALS, SENIOR DOCTOR WARNS
NHS England said hospitals were generally coping, with overall bed occupancy levels down from 95 percent in the lead-up to Christmas to about 93 percent ... READ MORE›
JOYRIDERS RAM STOLEN VEHICLE INTO GARDA CAR
Mobile footage of the incident depicts a silver Nissan Micra being driven recklessly on the road in view of an occupied Garda car... READ MORE›
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›
SEASONAL FLU KILLS MORE GLOBALLY THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
Global death rates from seasonal influenza are likely between 291,000 and 646,000 people each year, depending on the severity of the circulating flu strain, they said... READ MORE›
PHILIPPINES LAUNCHES PROBE INTO DENGUE VACCINE SCARE
Sanofi's Dengvaxia is the first-ever approved dengue vaccine... 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›
PARENTS CAN HELP MINIMIZE CHILDREN'S PAIN FROM VACCINATIONS, STUDY SAYS
Four-year-old Harrison watches curiously as the nurse approaches his two-year-old sister, Georgia, to give her the flu shot at a Toronto pediatric clinic... 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›
DOCTORS BRACED FOR WINTER FLU OUTBREAK AMID FEARS OVER VACCINE
Federal health officials say they logged 72 flu-related deaths among this year's total... READ MORE›
7 CASES OF FLU REPORTED SO FAR THIS SEASON, OTTAWA PUBLIC HEALTH SAYS
This year's vaccine is designed to protect against influenza A H3N2, influenza A H1N1 and influenza B, according to Ottawa Public Health... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Influenza
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›
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›
'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›
CHINA BIRD FLU DEATHS SURGE IN WHAT COULD BE THE WORST SEASON EVER
Whenever influenza viruses are circulating in poultry, sporadic infections or small clusters of human cases are possible... READ MORE›
MILLIONS OF PATIENTS PUTTING STRAIN ON NHS WITH MINOR AILMENTS
Council leaders are advising patients affected by such ailments to visit a pharmacy or seek treatment advice from the NHS Choices website instead... 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›
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›
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›
CHINESE POULTRY MARKETS CLOSED TO HALT BIRD FLU
Mexico and the United States first reported human cases of the H1N1, or swine flu, virus in April 2009, according to the World Health Organization... READ MORE›
ALLERGIC TO LIFE: THE ARIZONA RESIDENTS 'SENSITIVE TO THE WHOLE WORLD'
Susie told us she didn't see any overlap between mental and environmental illness... 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›
THESE 10 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS MISSED HUNDREDS OF HOUSE VOTES
These 10 Members of Congress missed hundreds of House votes... 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›
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›
FIRST EBOLA PATIENT DIAGNOSED IN US WONT BE TREATED WITH ZMAPP
First ebola patient diagnosed in us won't be treated with zmapp... READ MORE›
GET THE JAB AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT KISSING
It has been around for a while now, so lots of people have immunity and it's part of the annual flu vaccine... 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›
BOY (10) DIES IN BED AFTER MUM MISTOOK CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING FOR THE FLU
A 10-year-old boy died of carbon monoxide poisoning after being sent to bed with flu-like symptoms while on holiday... 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›
COLDS FEEL WORSE TO LONELY PEOPLE, STUDY SUGGESTS
Loneliness twice as unhealthy as obesity for older people, study finds... 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›
PAMELA ANDERSON POSTS NUDE PHOTO, CLAIMS SHE'S CURED OF HEPATITIS C
Pamela Anderson posted a nude picture of herself on Instagram to announce that she's been cured of hepatitis C... 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›
WORLD ON BRINK OF GLOBAL EMERGENCY OVER DEADLY OUTBREAK, ACADEMICS WARN
Scientists are concerned that yellow fever could reach Britain naturally as the climate gets warm enough for Asian tiger mosquito to flourish... READ MORE›