The Latest Breaking News from Influenza

A recent U.S.-based study discovered that children born in October are more likely to get vaccinated against the flu during the same month and are at a reduced risk of contracting influenza.

Local avian influenza outbreak in two villages in Nellore district in Andhra Pradesh has come to the fore. "Police personnel closed chicken shops in a three-km radius of the 10-km surveillance area for three days in these two epicentres. We are taking all measures to control the disease," Nellore district…

Climate change is a threat to polar bear’s survival. Now they have a new deadly challenge facing them: bird flu. It was recently confirmed that a polar bear from northern Alaska has died from the disease.

COVID-19 was the first coronavirus pandemic. The original Sars virus from 2003 and the Mers virus that created a health emergency in South Korea in 2015 were both coronaviruses, but fortunately failed to turn into pandemics in the way that COVID did.

Respiratory infections continue to surge in the U.S. after the holiday season. High or very high levels of respiratory illnesses were reported in 38 states last week, according to CDC.

An artificial intelligence (AI) model can predict which variants of the COVID-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus will likely bring about fresh waves of the infection, new research has found. The team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, and The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Israel, analysed 9 SARS-CoV-2 million genetic sequences across 30…

The experts fear that more polar bears may have fallen prey to the disease.

The study showed that in children, the hospitalization rate was highest for RSV (81.7%), while it was only 31.5% for omicron and 27.7% for influenza.

Colds, influenza and other respiratory illnesses tend to be more common during colder months, when viruses spread more easily because people are indoors more and in closer proximity to others.