Influenza, often called the flu, is an acute, highly contagious infection of the respiratory tract which commonly occurs in the winter. Influenza usually appears in epidemic form and affects many ...

Margaret Chan, the World Health Organization's director-general, has decided not to declare that the world has entered the first flu pandemic of this century. But she's leaving open the question -- ...

The news reported that classes in public schools in the National Capital Region were suspended because of a rise in influenza-like illnesses (ILI). This was later followed by an announcement that the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Using a traditional definition of health care-associated influenza missed more than 80% of possible cases among ...

In a recent study published in the journal PLoS Medicine, researchers investigated whether COVID-19 patients could fit the diagnostic criteria for long coronavirus disease (COVID-19) or post-COVID ...

In the first month of the flu season, South Carolina reached more than half the number of outbreaks in cases recorded during the entire previous flu season, according to the South Carolina Department ...