The U.S. is seeing a post-Thanksgiving spike in influenza, data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on ...

The latest data on respiratory illness in the United States shows that shoppers and merry-makers are spreading more than just holiday cheer: They’re also passing around germs. In many cases, it’s a ...

A mutated flu virus is spreading across the U.S., with 86.8% of recent cases identified as H3N2 subclade K. The flu shot is ...

Every winter, as the air sharpens and scarves return to shoulders, an old visitor also makes a reappearance: the flu. It ...

Louisiana, Colorado, and New York are among the states with the highest number of influenza-like illness (ILI) symptoms, a ...

A. You might be suffering from influenza. Colds do not usually cause body aches. This year, the dominant influenza virus has ...

Onset, intensity, severity and duration of influenza seasons vary each year and are driven by factors such as temperature, ...

The “subtype” of flu that is dominant this year, called influenza A/H3N2, has been around since 1968 and there have been over ...

The Punjab health department said that over the past 12 days more than 50,000 influenza cases have been reported in ...

ANSWER: Both colds and influenza (the “flu”) are respiratory illnesses that are caused by viruses. Influenza is caused specifically by the influenza viruses, which come in two main types (A and B).

A Koloa Maoli (Hawaiian duck) was found sick on Nov. 26 at the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Hanalei National Wildlife ...

Three state agencies remain on alert after a third possible case of avian influenza was found in a wild bird, this time in an ...