How successfully a person can fend off the flu depends not only on the virus' notorious ability to change with the season, but also on the strain first encountered during childhood, according to new research published in ...
Dec 19, 2019
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The U.S. winter flu season is off to its earliest start in more than 15 years.
Dec 6, 2019
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The just-ended 2018-2019 flu season was relatively mild compared to the last season, during which nearly 80,000 people in the U.S. died of flu-related illness, according to estimates by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...
May 30, 2019
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H3N2: If you've had it, you know how bad it can be. If you don't, you've heard about it and are afraid. Very afraid.
Jan 15, 2018
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The influenza virus remains a worldwide threat to humans, causing an average of 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations each year in the United States alone. As health care professionals prepare for another flu season, ...
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When most of us get the flu, we spend three or four days on the couch feeling miserable, then we bounce back pretty quickly. But others have more severe symptoms and need to be hospitalised because they're at risk of life-threatening ...
Apr 15, 2019
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After advising the public to avoid the nasal-spray version of the flu vaccine for the past two years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now giving it the green light.
Aug 26, 2018
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You're feeling under the weather, but is it a cold or the flu? Sometimes it's hard to tell initially, and even more difficult to decide if you should make an appointment with your doctor. One Baylor College of Medicine expert ...
Feb 28, 2017
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A new Yale-led study suggests that death from influenza virus in older people may be primarily caused by a damaging immune response to flu and not by the virus itself. The insight could lead to novel strategies for combating ...
Apr 21, 2016
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The risk of suffering a stroke is significantly reduced for up to two months after receiving a flu vaccine, a major new study has shown.
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