The United States may be headed for a rough flu season, with a virus that causes more severe symptoms than the one last year ...

Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly ...

A seasonal flu virus suddenly mutated in the summer. It appears to evade some of our immunity, has kick-started a flu season ...

Vermont added only 9 positive flu tests in Friday's report, but those numbers will increase. Health officials are suggesting ...

Those exposed are taking extra precaution to keep the virus from spreading. April 26, 2009— -- When Patrick Henshaw's son became sick last Friday, little did he know that the 18-year-old had ...

YOU DO NEED TO SHOW PROOF OF RESIDENCE. WELL, IMAGINE NOT HAVING TO GET YEARLY FLU SHOTS AND STILL BEING SNIFFLE FREE. IT’S PART OF A NEW VACCINE STRATEGY THAT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN AND ...

How can we monitor the cross-species transmission of avian flu? The answer is FluWarning, a digital system that reports ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to calculate how quickly Escherichia coli (E. coli) can spread from person to ...

The number of Australian cases of the virus, commonly known as swine flu, has reached more than 1,200, with state and federal medical officers set to hold an emergency meeting in ...

One school nurse in Sacramento, Calif., is at the center of the H1N1 swine flu epidemic, dabbing the noses of sick kids and comforting panicked parents as they push for vaccine, information and ...

A new study in the British medical journal, BMJ, suggests that big-name flu treatments oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza) have only a “small benefit” in kids under 12 — but can have serious ...