This year's flu season is turning out to be brutal. As a new variant known as subclade K spreads rapidly, a study out today offers clues as to how to avoid the annual sickness. Researchers from ...

Researchers set out to create a perfect storm of infection: a cramped hotel room, people actively shedding influenza, and healthy volunteers breathing the same air for hours. Instead of triggering a ...

A group of volunteers spent days locked in a small hotel room with people actively infected with flu. They played games, shared objects and exercised together in conditions designed to help the virus ...

The finding came about while scientists were looking into the virulence of the H1N1 influenza strain. Back in 2009 a pandemic associated with this virus killed over 250,000 people worldwide. Symptoms ...

Dr. Donald Milton sits in front of the Gesundheit II machine, invented by Milton and colleagues at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. COLLEGE PARK, Md. – This year’s flu season is turning out ...

It’s shaping up to be one of the worst flu seasons in recent history, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, which tracks the flu virus nationally. (This interactive map provides a visual ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Weeks after North Carolina's first pediatric flu-related death of the season, influenza rates in the Tar Heel State remain high. A ...