More about

Influenza

News
September 14, 2024
3 min read
Save

High-dose flu vaccine maintains efficacy in older adults with chronic CVD

High- vs. standard-dose influenza vaccine was linked to a lower incidence of mortality and hospitalizations for pneumonia or influenza regardless of chronic CVD, according to a study presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

News
August 02, 2024
2 min read
Save

WHO launches effort to develop mRNA vaccine against bird flu

WHO this week announced a project to speed development of a messenger RNA vaccine against highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans.

News
May 22, 2024
2 min read
Save

Michigan dairy worker is second human bird flu case linked to cows

A dairy worker in Michigan became the second human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus linked to an outbreak in dairy cows, the CDC and Michigan health officials announced Wednesday.

News
May 15, 2024
2 min read
Save

CDC launches wastewater dashboard for flu to help track H5N1

The CDC has launched an influenza A wastewater online dashboard to help track the potential spread of H5N1 avian influenza, or “bird flu,” which has caused outbreaks among birds and dairy cows.

News
April 26, 2024
2 min read
Save

Older patients with RSV have higher complication rates than those with flu

Older patients with respiratory syncytial virus have higher complication rates than those with influenza, although both illnesses had comparable mortality rates, researchers found.

News
April 22, 2024
3 min read
Save

Three patients with puffy eyelids

Over the years, an old friend, Michael Cater, MD, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital of Orange County, California, has shared numerous interesting cases, some from exotic places during his time in the Army.

News
April 05, 2024
1 min read
Save

FDA approves at-home rapid test for influenza, COVID-19

The FDA issued an emergency use authorization for CorDx TyFast Flu A/B & COVID-19 At Home Multiplex Rapid Test, according to an FDA roundup news release.

News
April 01, 2024
2 min read
Save

Vaccines do not increase risk for lupus, meta-analysis finds

Vaccinations in general do not increase the risk for systemic lupus erythematosus, but hepatitis B vaccines may have a “significant connection” with the disease, according to a meta-analysis published in Arthritis Research & Therapy.

News
February 09, 2024
2 min read
Save

Flu vaccine makers plan switch to trivalent shots, removing vanished B virus

Influenza vaccine manufacturers in the United States said this week that they have plans to remove a potentially extinct influenza B lineage from their vaccines and offer only trivalent shots next season.

News
December 26, 2023
1 min read
Save

Top in ID: Evolution of C. difficile therapies; 'long flu' poses risk to pulmonary system

To break the cycle of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, physicians have shifted treatment strategies from antibiotics to fecal microbiota transplantation and live biotherapeutic products.

View more