Each strain also affects children differently. Flu A is more likely cause ear infections than Flu B, but Flu B can cause ...

Experts say this is the worst flu season in the U.S. in more than a decade and cases are still trending up. Flu infections have reached the highest level since the winter of 2010 and 2011 when the ...

Flu A and flu B are two different strains of influenza, explains Thomas Russo, M.D., professor and chief of infectious ...

PROVIDENCE – If you feel like everyone around you is getting influenza – also known as the flu – you may not be entirely ...

but influenza A is the dominant version of influenza infecting people right now.” Both types spread the same way, cause ...

In the United States, flu shots are updated annually to include multiple types of influenza A and B viruses; scientists pick strains of the viruses expected to be dominant that year.

Historically, seasonal flu strains have required annual vaccine updates based on predictions of dominant variants. However, if influenza A continues to evolve at this rate, researchers may need to ...

According to one CDC metric, this flu season is the worst it’s been in 15 years. AHN says its confirmed nearly 3,000 local ...

In February 2024, government veterinarians in the Czech Republic investigating a bird flu outbreak found themselves in the ...

Federal health officials say a dairy worker in Nevada has been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the ...

Canada has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N5 avian influenza on a non-commercial poultry farm. This bird flu ...

The CDC confirmed a case of a new strain of bird flu in a dairy worker who contracted the virus from infected cows on a ...