Flu shot only 36 percent effective, making bad year worse
The flu vaccine is doing a poor job protecting older Americans and others against the bug that's causing most illnesses.
This flu season is now as bad as the 2009 swine flu
It's also surpassing every winter flu season since 2003, when the government changed the way it measures flu.
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What you need to know about this season’s brutal flu
This year's flu outbreak is the most widespread the Centers for Disease Control has ever seen. Doctor visits are climbing and pediatric deaths from the illness are up as well. What makes it so severe? Dr. Amber Robins of Georgetown…
Flu is widespread in 46 states, and at least 106 people had died from the infectious disease as of mid-December. Here's what you need to know about this year's flu.
On this edition for Saturday, Nov. 18, nearly 200 countries, not including the U.S., agree to move forward on climate change. Also, the quest to develop a universal and long-lasting flu vaccine, and a report shows that black residents of…
The flu and complications from it can kill as many 56,000 Americans every year while costing $10 billion in doctor visits, hospitalizations and medication. But since the strains change so quickly, its vaccine is only around 20 to 60 percent…
The World Health Organization recommended that flu vaccine manufacturers swap out a component based on one flu virus with an updated version.
The start of flu season is still weeks — if not months — away. Yet marketing of the flu shot has become an almost year-round effort.
