The Latest Breaking News from Influenza

From this press release sent out last Friday (see also the Complaint): Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA), a pediatric healthcare system in Georgia, violated federal law when it fired a maintenance assistant for requesting a religious exemption to its influenza vaccination policy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged…

Reports of birds getting trapped have been shared on social media

People are reporting feeling unwell with symptoms similar to Covid, while testing negative. It comes as flu cases in Ireland have almost doubled within a week.

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Key members of a health ministry advisory body indicated Wednesday that COVID-19 has different characteristics to seasonal influenza, a view that could shape the government's decision on whether to review the classification of the novel coronavirus and how the virus is handled.

The cold and flu season of 2022 has begun with a vengeance. Viruses that have been unusually scarce over the past three years are reappearing at remarkably high levels, sparking a “tripledemic” of COVID-19, the flu and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. This November’s national hospitalization levels for influenza were…

Unusually high rates of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, continue to fill pediatric units in hospitals around Alaska, marking a nasty cold and flu season that still hasn't reached its peak.

The U.S. is enduring its worst poultry health disaster, with some 52.7 million birds dead. Unlike another recent outbreaks, this one has lasted through the summer — and it's still going strong.

Nearly 300 people were admitted to hospital wards around the country with influenza since the start of October

This years respiratory virus season began early and is more severe — doctors wonder when infections will peak

Taking a new approach, based on the mRNA technology that proved effective against COVID-19, University of Pennsylvania researchers are working on the experimental vaccine.