Washington state recorded 388 influenza-related deaths between late 2024 and early 2025. Here’s why this winter’s flu season was so severe.

Flu viruses are categorized into four types: A, B, C and D. Types A and B are the most harmful to humans and cause seasonal flu epidemics; in the Northern Hemisphere, flu season typically occurs ...

This year's flu season has become Washington state's deadliest in nearly a decade, totaling at least 388 deaths so far.

One vote would have set flu vaccine recommendations for the 2025-2026 U.S. flu season following the FDA ... offered to children who need them this fall. The decisions to remove or delay ACIP ...

Concern is growing among public health experts that anti-vaccine sentiments within federal and state governments may derail ...

The overall hospitalization rate for the 2024-25 season is 90.2 per 100,000 people. Two children have died from flu in Oregon, marking the first deaths in two years. Willamette Week reports flu ...

The preprint study, which was published on MedRxiv.org this week, looked at infection data for the 2024-2025 flu season. Researchers found that among 53,402 Cleveland Clinic employees in northern ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains tend to infect birds. But the potential for influenza A viruses that ...

Seasonal flu shots and Covid-19 vaccines are recommended each respiratory virus season, which comes over the fall and winter. These vaccines can be given at the same time, but they come in ...