The Latest Breaking News from Influenza

The country faces its largest-ever outbreak of avian flu, with 200 confirmed cases in the past 12 months.

From November 7, birdkeepers in England will be legally required to house their poultry indoors in a bid to tackle the spread of bird flu.

Infections began to spread through the south and southeast US, and will likely continue to spread up the Atlantic coast

Researchers found the RSV and influenza viruses fused together to form a new type of virus pathogen

It comes only a week after the first case was discovered

Hospitalisation rate for influenza was at 0.84 per 100,000 this week

An Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) has been declared across the UK due to an increase in the number of detections of bird flu in wild birds and on commercial premises

Flu season usually peaks in winter; however, the best time to prevent infection is before the virus appears in a community.

As the weather gets colder, Americans hunker down for a third winter marred by COVID-19 — a virus everyone would gladly erase from our memories. But we can’t, because the bug is still taking about 400 American lives per day. Annualized, that works out to more than Alzheimer’s or diabetes…