With social distancing measures in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, confirmed cases of influenza plummeted during the 2020-2021 flu season. According to data published on the CDC's website, U.S.

The coming flu season may be a doozy. Even as coronavirus was devastating populations around the world, killing 3.7 million people globally, doctors and public health officials noticed something else ...

Influenza D virus, a pathogen best known for causing respiratory illness in cattle, appears to be silently infecting farmworkers across multiple continents, according to a growing body of serological ...

People who get flu could have prolonged symptoms which are similar to those seen in some patients with long COVID, a new study suggests. But lasting symptoms occur to a lesser extent among those who ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — One new flu death was reported in last week’s influenza report by the South Dakota Department of Health. Health officials say the death was in Faulk County and its the ...

Every year, more than six billion doses of flu (influenza) vaccine are administered to people around the world. But by the following year, the virus has mutated, and we need to create another vaccine ...

A new variant of influenza H3N2 is spreading in other countries. But that could mean the U.S. is in for a rough flu season. The mutated strain, known as subclade K, is causing a surge in cases in the ...