Fauci is designating a universal flu vaccine a top priority for NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases... READ MORE›
Flu activity in Canada 'high' and continuing to rise, latest public health numbers say... READ MORE›
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›
Australian flu is the name given to flu subtype influenza A H3N2 ... READ MORE›
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›
As cold snap adds to pressure, Worcestershire trust is forced to divert patients from A E at two hospitals... READ MORE›
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›
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›
NHS England is urging parents to vaccinate super-spreader children against flu so grandparents and other vulnerable relatives will be less at risk over the Christmas period... READ MORE›
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›
Influenza NSW Health Minister says current vaccine 'not up to the job' after deadly flu season... READ MORE›
Federal health officials say they logged 72 flu-related deaths among this year's total... READ MORE›
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›
Significantly, the new vaccine works by stimulating the immune system to boost virus-killing T-cells, instead of antibodies... READ MORE›
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›
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›
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›
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›
Half of Australian adults don't receive government-funded jabs for influenza, pneumonia and shingles, the Vaccine Myopia report found... READ MORE›
From Sept. 1 to Jan. 3 there were 115 confirmed cases of influenza in the city, according to Ottawa Public Health... READ MORE›
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›
In 2013, a new flu vaccine nasal spray for children aged two to 16 was introduced in the UK... READ MORE›
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›
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›
But they could threaten the pharma giants that dominate flu vaccine production... READ MORE›
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›
Public Health England and the WHO are being urged to use a broader spectrum of vaccines in future against winter flu... READ MORE›
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›
Swine flu is only one of four strains of influenza circulating, according to Robert Booy from the University of Sydney... READ MORE›
Department of Health warns that only one in four children eligible for free nasal spray vaccine has received it so far this year... READ MORE›
The study should include the benefit of preventing heart attacks in a proportion of people, she said... READ MORE›
AFP must admit to its 'big mistake' leading to Bali Nine executions, says barrister friend... READ MORE›
Researchers have published the first evidence that the Zika virus is a potential trigger for Guillain-Barre syndrome... READ MORE›
Scientists still don't know if two commonly used flu drugs Roche's Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza really work in seasonal or pandemic flu outbre... READ MORE›
Vaccine experts think the results may reflect other miscarriage risks for the women, and not the flu shots... READ MORE›
Some 190,000 ducks were destroyed on Saturday at six farms in the Netherlands following an avian flu outbreak, the country's first cull of an epidemic swee... READ MORE›
Flu viruses change rapidly to escape the body's defenses... READ MORE›
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