The flu season started early this year, and experts predict the situation will worsen. Nearly 3000 people have already died from the flu. Authorities are urging people, especially the elderly, to get vaccinated, FoxNews reports. “Seasonal influenza activity is elevated across the country,” the agency said in a statement.

In the middle of last year, some experts frightened humanity with the coming autumn-winter “twindemic” - a double epidemic that would combine COVID-19 and influenza, recalls Lifehacker. A truly terrible scenario was presented: they say that in the fall the number of hospitalizations due to seasonal colds will traditionally increase and this will finish without...

New York City authorities have confirmed the first officially recorded death of a child from the flu this season. The first in the city and state, the second in the country: in mid-October, one child died of the disease in Florida. This statement was made on Thursday by the current ...

A new influenza drug that can shorten the duration of illness in adolescents and adults in a single dose was presented in a topical study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. The article presents the results of two multicenter, double-blind, random ...

The worst flu season of the decade continues to claim lives, including children. According to the latest data received on Friday, February 16, 22 more children have died. The total death toll of children from influenza was 84, writes USA Today. Last update published by federal ...