Not long after the first flu shot was introduced in 1945 by University of Michigan virologist Thomas Francis and his ...

This year’s flu season has been intense for every age group. The CDC said there have been at least 33 million illnesses, ...

“Findings in this report show that vaccination with the 2024–2025 influenza vaccine reduced the likelihood of medically attended influenza and support CDC’s recommendation that all persons aged ≥6 ...

If the FDA and CDC sit on their hands, next season the flu shot will be a lot more expensive, if you can find it at all. That ...

Flu season continues to spread across the nation and won't be ending until May. But doctors believe it's not too late to get the flu vaccine.

Unfortunately, flu vaccination rates have declined since the COVID-19 pandemic. At the end of the 2023-24 flu season, 9.2 million fewer doses were administered in pharmacies and doctors’ offices ...

About 44 percent of American adults ages 18 and older have received a flu vaccine this season, according to the CDC. For the flu season last year, about 45 percent of adults got the shot.

Hospital visits for flu-like illness dropped about 9 percent last week from a week earlier, although the risk of serious flu complications remains high and there are only about 20,000 doses of ...

Zoetis initially got a contract to create a bird flu vaccine for chickens from the USDA’s National Veterinary Stockpile in 2016. As with a human flu vaccine, the company has had to keep updating ...

Doctors say it’s possible to get bird flu from pets, but unlikely to be an issue for most Americans. The study, which was published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC ...

If we can use this knowledge to develop vaccines using the parts of the virus that T cells recognize, we might be able to protect ourselves from future flu mutations." Currently, human influenza ...