Dec 11 Watch 3:35 What you need to know about this year’s elevated flu threat By PBS News Hour ‘Tis the season to be sick, and this year’s flu shot may not save you. Doctors are warning that the season could be more severe than they thought because a strain of the virus is not responding to the vaccine. Continue watching
Oct 22 Watch Ebola sounds scary, but these diseases are the real health threat By PBS News Hour Ebola remains at the forefront of public safety concerns, but there are a number of illnesses that pose a far greater health risk. Hari Sreenivasan speaks to Dr. William Schaffner, the chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt… Continue watching
Mar 14 Turns out Google’s not so hot at predicting flu cases By Margaret Myers It seems that Google Flu Trends, which launched to much hype in 2008, has been off the mark. Continue reading
Jan 27 Want $3,000? Volunteer to get the flu By Sarah Corapi In the hopes of making a better flu vaccine, NIH scientists are purposely infecting dozens of volunteers with the influenza virus, The Associated Press reports. Continue reading
Jan 09 Watch More Than 40 States See Widespread Flu Infection Last year, cases of influenza were at extremely low levels, but the virus has returned with a vengeance. Gwen Ifill talks to Dr. Julie Morita of the Chicago Health Department and Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University about the current… Continue watching
Jan 18 H1N1 Gives Clues to Universal Flu Vaccine By Talea Miller Researchers found that the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza produced antibodies that provide protection from several flu strains. Continue reading
Jan 07 Watch With H1N1 Vaccine Now Abundant, Flu Fears Ease With the H1N1 vaccine no longer in short supply, the crowds that once lined clinics nationwide are now gone. But has the rush to get vaccinated slowed too soon? Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Jan 07 H1N1 Vaccine Reaching Poorer Nations as Flu Fears Continue to Wane By Talea Miller Developing nations will begin receiving donated H1N1 vaccine Thursday, just as the U.S. shortage is waning and some European nations find themselves with more vaccine than they can handle. Continue reading
Dec 14 Anatomy of a Pandemic With Ray Suarez By Hari Sreenivasan Ray Suarez is all over the world tonight. While he is covering the climate conference in Copenhagen for the NewsHour, his special documentary on the H1N1 virus will be airing coast to coast tonight on PBS stations. Ray shares… Continue reading
Dec 14 Watch Examining the Anatomy of a Pandemic and the H1N1 Scare Ray Suarez unveils his new documentary, "Anatomy of a Pandemic," Monday evening. It looks at the H1N1 flu virus, how the government is handling the scare and what emergency rooms are doing to combat the spread. Continue watching