The flu vaccine is generally about 40% effective at completely preventing influenza, according to Blumberg. The flu vaccine ...

Vaccinations are available from your GP, a participating community pharmacy or health trust vaccination clinic.

Cases of norovirus infections are surging, but coming up with a way to prevent them has proven to be a challenge.

The flu disproportionately sickens people of color, and experts say vaccinating is the best way to keep it at bay. But ...

Everyone eligible for the flu vaccination has been urged by the Public Health Agency (PHA) to take up the offer as the jab is ...

Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious ...

The U.S. has developed a bird flu vaccine that can be prepared when needed. It’s not currently available because health ...

Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain. Good news: approved ...

A 13-year-old girl in Canada became so sick with H5N1, or bird flu, in late 2024 that she had to be put on a ventilator.

At least 66 people, most of them dairy workers, have been infected. Last week, the Louisiana Health Department reported the ...

Government adviser on vaccines says it should be compulsory for schools to have flu jabs, citing the recent hospitalisation ...

Washington is seeing “very high” flu levels statewide, and the number of deaths linked to the virus is going up.