Flu vaccine with four times the antigen reduces hospital visits for nursing home residents: Study
The fact that vaccines typically don’t work as well in older people presents a challenge to influenza vaccine makers, particularly because the illness often results in serious respiratory infections in frail More...
Younger population more susceptible to recent flu
There is a new trend in flu instances and it involves the normally healthy cohort of 18-64 year olds. This year, the “younger” population has represented 61% of all flu-related hospitalizations, almost double More...
Flu hospitalizations and deaths in younger people are up this season: CDC
PRESS RELEASE This influenza season was particularly hard on younger- and middle-age adults, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in today’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. People age More...
Egypt reports 38 H1N1 influenza deaths
The Egyptian Health Ministry confirmed 38 deaths related to the A/H1N1 virus, known as swine flu, including four physicians, since the beginning of last December, according to a Daily News Egypt report Sunday. Image/CIA In More...
Talking bird flu, seasonal influenza, flu shots and India’s polio success with Dr. Vincent Racaniello
With influenza of all sorts– H5N1, H1N1 and H7N9, dominating the media recently, I decided to delve in a little deeper and try to clear up some questions “people watching the news” may have when More...
Flu is reported ‘widespread’ in 70 percent of US states: CDC
The 2013-2014 influenza season had a slow start this year; however, we are getting to where we are typically found this time of year pretty quickly now. Image/CDC In their epidemiologic report from week one of 2014, More...
CDC tweets 10 flu tips as 25 states now report widespread flu activity
Despite a relatively slow start to this 2013-2014 flu season, it has certainly picked up strongly in recent weeks as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reporting 25 states as having widespread More...
One in five Americans report having not received the flu vaccine due to fear that it causes flu: Survey
PRESS RELEASE According to a new survey released by the National Consumers League (NCL), fears and misperceptions about flu vaccines persist among Americans—adults and parents of children under the age of 17 More...
WSU researchers discover how Nipah virus infects human cells
PRESS RELEASE A team of scientists from Washington State University has discovered how one of the planet’s most deadly known viruses employs burglary-ring-like teamwork to infiltrate the human cell. WSU virologist More...
CDC launches influenza prediction by using social media competition
CDC has launched the “Predict the Influenza Season Challenge,” a competition designed to foster innovation in flu activity modeling and prediction. The registrant who most successfully predicts the timing, peak More...
Global flu activity remains low, influenza A(H3N2) is predominant
The latest influenza data published by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that influenza activity is on the low end as of the most recent reporting week ending Oct. 12. Influenza in the US mapImage/CDC During More...
Arkansas reports two cases of swine flu variant H1N1(v)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed that two people in Arkansas have been infected with a strain of influenza known as H1N1(v) after contact with pigs. Photo/Agricultural Research More...
Illinois confirms first case of H3N2v ‘swine flu’, brings total to 15 cases in three states
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) laboratory has confirmed one case of H3N2v influenza virus in a Boone County child who had contact with swine while helping an exhibitor at the DuPage County Fair More...
Flu activity up in the United States, influenza A (H3N2) most common
Image/CDC Influenza activity continues to increase across most parts of the country, with nine out of 10 surveillance regions in the US seeing elevated activity, according to data from the Centers for Disease More...
Hillary Clinton hospitalized after doctors discover a blood clot
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was admitted to a New York City hospital on Sunday after doctors discovered that a blood clot had formed, the State Department said in a statement. Philippe Reines, a deputy assistant More...
