It’s been a brutal flu season. Rates of hospitalizations and outpatient visits for influenza are at a 15-year high, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The 2021-22 influenza season ... However, if you haven’t yet, “it’s not too late because the flu season does continue into the early spring,” Pinsky said. Data to date suggest the season ...

Those affected may take comfort from the fact that the official view is that it has been a bad year for flu. The season normally starts dropping off around now, but across Europe, an ‘intense ...

Data to date suggests the season has peaked; however, flu-related medical visits, hospitalizations, and deaths remain elevated, and the CDC expects several more weeks of above-average flu activity.

Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms since it was first detected in North America in late 2021. But what has been ...

Doctors have characterized this flu season as one of the worst in recent ... 52 percent of children received the flu vaccine; in 2021, 55 percent were vaccinated and in 2020, 59 percent were ...

Reports of children in the United States with influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis (IAE) increased from none during the 2020-2021 flu season to a preliminary 14% for the 2024-2025 ...

That’s lower than the number of flu shots distributed at this point in the flu season since 2021-22, according to federal data. There’s no way to know whether we’ll see a similar flu season ...

when flu season will finally end. People often confuse the flu with the common cold, but an influenza infection can be much worse than a common cold; for some people, the flu could be fatal.