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 ...

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 ...

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

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

“It's a very late, long, severe season, so it's been a pretty extraordinary ... at least 296 people in Washington state have died of the flu since the fall. But it’s not too late to get ...

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 ...

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 ...