Late in the Middle Ages, Italian stargazers gave a name to the annual contagion that rolled around each year like clockwork.

As flu season nears, experts encourage people to get their annual flu vaccine. Here's the best time to get the flu shot, how long it lasts, side effects and more.

With the threat of a "tripledemic" looming, it's essential to be aware of the symptoms of the new Covid variant or know if ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s time to get a flu vaccine, and pediatricians are urging people to get them after last winter, when the U.S. saw the most flu-related child deaths in 15 years. October is the ...

Flu is a respiratory virus that causes fever, fatigue, body aches, headache and cough. While some people can fight it off at home, young children, older adults, pregnant people and folks who are ...

Whenever you decide to get it, the best time to get the shot is before flu is “widely circulating and with enough time for you to develop immunity,” said Dr. Geeta Sood, an infectious disease ...

Annual flu shots are now available at Walmart, CVS, and other major drugstores around the country. But, when is the best time for millions of Americans get their vaccines? You may want to hold out ...

After the 2024-2025 flu season recorded the highest number of positive flu cases the U.S. has seen in 15 years, health ...

Since early 2022, bird flu has affected more than 180 million farmed birds and killed countless wild ones. But it has also ...