The Latest Breaking News from Influenza

Researchers have created an mRNA-based influenza vaccine that targets four viral proteins that tend to remain the same across different strains of influenza.

Influenza on the rise among under-15s as autumn hits, UKHSA warns

The UK has been battling the largest ever outbreak of avian influenza, with more than 200 cases confirmed since late October 2021

COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza are respiratory infections caused by different viruses. The concern is that each has overlapping symptoms, and all are arriving together. There are ways to keep these viruses at bay as the U.S. enters the colder months.

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…