Flu vaccine linked to higher infections, says early research Vaccinated healthcare workers more likely to get flu, but doctors note limitations By Melissa Rudy Fox News Published April 9, 2025 4 ...

Seasonal flu cases have hit a 15-year high this year— filling hospitals, shutting down schools, and leading to an estimated 19,000 flu-related deaths so far in the United States.

But it's rare for the bird flu to be transferred from one human to another, according to the AAFP. In order to do so, the virus must transform into a human flu virus.

The flu shot lowers the chance of contracting the flu, and of developing complications from it. When someone falls seriously ill, doctors can use antiviral medications to try to help patients recover.

Moderna’s mRNA-based flu and covid-19 vaccine could provide the best of both worlds—if it’s actually ever approved by the Food and Drug Administration. This week, scientists at Moderna ...

Scientists warn what future bird flu mutations could mean for people | 60 Minutes As the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates and rapidly spreads through American cattle herds — a first for the U.S ...

Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the United States more than a year after the first human case was detected. Since then, at least 70 people have fallen ill and at least one death ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

In the past 30 days alone, bird flu has been confirmed in 134 commercial and backyard flocks in the US as of Monday, affecting 18.91 million birds, according to the USDA.

The WHO has said that both forms of the bird flu virus do not appear to transmit easily from person to person. The latest outbreak of H7N9 in the United States, detected on a farm of 47,654 ...

The study, which was released April 4 on the preprint server medRxiv and hasn't been published in a peer-reviewed journal, aimed to test the flu vaccine's effectiveness in about 53,000 Cleveland ...