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20 Feb
Why Is the Flu So Brutal This Year?
HealthDay asks Dr. Lauren Siewny, Medical Director of the Duke University Emergency Department
18 Feb
A Good Night’s Sleep Is a Powerful Weapon During Cold and Flu Season
A sleep specialist from the Cleveland Clinic explains why sleep is important to boosting your immunity while common respiratory illnesses surge in the U.S.
16 Jul
Over-the-Counter Nasal Sprays May Protect You From Serious Cold and Flu Symptoms
A new study finds widely available nasal sprays can limit or even prevent full-blown symptoms from colds, flu and sinus infections.
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WEDNESDAY, June 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Wildfires might inadvertently increase the risk of flu and COVID-19 outbreaks, a new study argues.
Sky-choking wildfire smoke tends to drive people indoors, and infectious diseases are more likely to spread among those packed into enclosed spaces, r...
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COVID-19 and influenza burned through the U.S. during this year’s cold and flu season, and deadly measles outbreaks have sickened people in 19 states.
So what does it take to get people vaccinated against these preventable diseases?
Essentially, an outbreak within a person’s own com...
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As this year’s severe flu season rages across the country, federal health officials are investigating a rise in rare but life-threatening brain complications in children.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says at least 19,000 people have died from the flu so far this w...
A federal vaccine advisory panel work session focused on next year's flu shot has been canceled without explanation.
It is the second vaccine advisory meeting that has been canceled or postponed since Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic, was
The current flu season is shaping up to be the worst in a decade.
So far, there have been at least 29 million illnesses and 370,000 hospitalizations related to the flu -- the most since the 2015-2016 season, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) weekly flu report.
There have a...
Flu season is in full swing, making it more important than ever to take steps to protect yourself and your loved ones.
Dr. Priya Soni, a pediatric infectious disease specialist ...
- India Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- February 16, 2025
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Landing in the hospital with COVID or the flu can put your heart health at dire risk, a new study suggests.
Adults hospitalized for a severe infection are more than twice as likely to develop heart failure years later, according to findings published Jan. 30 in the
People still see COVID-19 as an ongoing public health threat, even though the pandemic officially ended in 2023, according to a new HealthDay/Harris Poll.
Nearly 3 in 4 people (72%) agree COVID is still a serious public health issue, including more than a third (35%) who strongly agree, the poll foun...
COVID-19 continues to be a threat to America’s health, causing more illness and death than either influenza or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a new study suggests.
COVID accounted for 3 of 5 (60%) respiratory illnesses among military veterans treated by the U.S. Veterans Health Administrati...
In the throes of winter's yearly round of respiratory virus outbreaks, it pays to remember what Grandma told you.
Wash your hands often, cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you sneeze or cough and stay away from folks who may be infected. And, of course, wearing a mask won't hurt.
Respiratory viruses that cause the
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing for patients hospitalized with flu symptoms, as the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak continues to grow in the United States and Canada.
The advisory, issued Jan. 16, recommends that h...
A Louisiana resident has died after being hospitalized with bird flu in December of last year, marking the first known U.S. death from the virus.
The patient who, "was over the age of 65 and was reported to have underlying medical conditions," state health officials announced in a statement, tested positive for the virus and developed sever...
- India Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- January 7, 2025
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It’s long been a mystery why folks need a flu vaccine every year, even though immunizations they got in childhood continue to protect them from measles and mumps.
Researchers now think they know why vaccine effectiveness varies -- and they’ve even come up with a blood test to chec...
Federal health officials have confirmed unsettling new details about the first United States case of severe bird flu, reported recently in a hospitalized patient in Louisiana.
Genetic samples from the patient contained mutations that could, in theory, help the virus better infect human cells.
Importantly, these mutations were observed in the later stages of infection and were not pr...
More Americans believe in the effectiveness of vaccines developed to protect newborns and seniors against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
More than half of U.S. adults (52%) think the RSV vaccine given to pregnant women will protect newborns from the infection, up from 42% a year ago, say
Predictably, flu season is in full swing, with cases surging across the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed Friday in a report.
Thirteen states, including Tennessee and Louisiana, report high or very high levels of flu-like illness, double the number from t...
- India Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- December 23, 2024
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In a case first reported in Louisiana last Friday, a patient has now developed the first known case of bird flu so severe as to require hospitalization, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Sixty other cases of H5N1 avian flu have been reported in people across the United States since April of this year, but have resulted in relatively mild symptoms that...
Worn down by pandemic-era vaccine overload, many Americans are ignoring pleas by health officials to get immunized against the flu and COVID-19, new data shows.
According to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
More than a year after its advisory panel unanimously declared the drug phenylephrine to be useless against nasal congestion, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing that it be removed from common over-the-counter decongestants.
Products that include phenylephrine as an active ingredient...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- November 7, 2024
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Now that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the at-home use of the flu vaccine spray FluMist, how do you know that it's the right choice for you and your family?
One expert offers advice on the spray's efficacy and how to figure out if FluMist is your best bet against flu germs. Importantly, the spray will not be available for use in homes until the fall of 2025.
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Folks who want solid protection during the cold and flu season should get the influenza vaccine now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.
The ideal time to get the flu vaccine is by the end of October, the FDA said in a
THURSDAY, Oct. 3, 2024, HealthDay News -- The Southern Hemisphere's flu season is winding down, and new data shows this year's flu shot was 34.5% effective in keeping folks there who got influenza from needing hospital care.
Most (68.3%) of those sent to hospi...
Most Americans don’t plan to get vaccinated against the flu or COVID-19 this season, a new survey has found.
Fewer than two in five U.S. adults (38%) say they will definitely get a flu jab, and only one in four (26%) say they’ll get the updated COVID vaccine, according to a
A non-drug nasal spray could theoretically help stop the spread of respiratory viruses like the flu and COVID-19 better than wearing a mask, a new study suggests.
The spray uses ingredients that are medically inactive to trap germs in the nose before they can infect a person, researchers said.
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- September 25, 2024
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It's that time of year when respiratory viruses start to circulate widely, but how can you tell the difference between the symptoms of a cold, the flu and COVID?
Dr. William Brian Glenn, from Hackensack Meridian Medical Group in New Jersey, shares what you need to know to be ready for whatever...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- September 22, 2024
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The days of waiting for a flu shot at your doctor's office or local pharmacy may be over: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved FluMist nasal spray as the first influenza vaccine that can be self-administered at home.
It's a "new option for receiving a safe and effective seasonal influenza vaccine potentially with greater convenience, flexibility and accessibility for i...
People should prepare for the fall cold and flu season by getting the updated influenza and COVID-19 vaccinations, an infectious diseases expert says.
“When my patients ask me if they should be getting a COVID vaccine this year, yes, essentially anybody over the ages of 6 months, I'm recommendi...
A lot of Americans are on the fence regarding annual flu and COVID shots, a new survey finds.
More than one-third of those polled (37%) said they’d gotten vaccines in the past but don’t plan to this year, according to results from a nationwide Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center s...
Losing weight can help a person with obesity -- especially those with diabetes -- fend off serious infections, new data shows.
It's an important finding, since "up to one in three hospitalizations in people with diabetes are for infections and people with diabetes are twice as likely to be hospitalized with infections than the general population. They are also at high risk of readmission,...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- September 9, 2024
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A universal flu vaccine that would protect against all influenza strains -- and that people might not need to take every year -- could be close at hand, researchers report.
An experimental vaccine candidate produced a strong immune response in lab mice, and it provided protection against severe inf...
Over-the-counter nasal sprays could be a potent weapon against a major public health threat -- antibiotic resistance, researchers report.
Their analysis, which looked at data from nearly 14,000 adults, found that common nasal sprays could help keep upper respiratory tract infections at bay, reducing the need for antibiotics.
Antibiotic resistance caused by overuse and misuse of thes...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
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- July 15, 2024
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U.S. health officials announced Tuesday that the federal government will pay Moderna $176 million to speed development of a pandemic flu vaccine based on mRNA technology.
Such a vaccine could be used to treat bird flu in people, as concern grows about H5N1 cases spreading in dairy cows across the country, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) noted.
"We ha...
The spread of H5N1 avian flu to dairy cows has health experts and many Americans on edge, and now a new study finds the virus stays viable on milking equipment for at least an hour.
"Dairy cows have to be milked even if they are sick, and it has not been clear for how long the virus contained in residual milk from the milking process remains stable on the equipment,"said study lead author...
A simple and inexpensive paper strip test could help diagnose a case of the flu, and even identify the influenza strain that caused it, a new study finds.
The test can distinguish between influenza A and B -- the two main types of seasonal flu -- as well as identifying more virulent strains like H1...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- June 25, 2024
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Two human cases of "dual mutant" strains of H1N1 flu have been reported by U.S. health officials.
Unfortunately, the genetic changes appear to render the leading flu antiviral, Tamiflu, less effective, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted.
The new analysis, published Wednesday in the age...
An experimental vaccine that could offer one-stop prevention for both COVID-19 and influenza is showing positive results among older adults in trials, maker Moderna announced Monday.
The shot -- for now called mRNA-1083 -- "has met its primary endpoints, eliciting a higher immune response than the licensed comparator vaccines used in the trial," Moderna said in a
An experimental mRNA vaccine against the H5N1 avian flu is highly effective in preventing severe illness and death in lab animals, researchers report.
The vaccine could help fight the H5N1 bird flu outbreaks now spreading in wild birds, poultry and cows in the United States, researchers said.
H5N1 avian "bird" flu is making headlines this week, with new reports finding inactive virus detected in 1 in 5 U.S. milk samples.
That means the virus is infecting mammals such as dairy cows, and now researchers report it's turned up in a bottlenos...
Want to prevent a respiratory infection?
A fingerful of Neosporin antibiotic swabbed inside your nose might help you fight off a range of invading respiratory viruses, a new study claims.
Lab animals whose noses were treated using neomycin -- the main ingredient in over-the-counter Neosporin ointment -- mounted a robust ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- April 23, 2024
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An unnamed person in Texas had been diagnosed with the H5N1 avian flu after close contact with infected dairy cattle, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday.
It's only the second case ever confirmed in the United States (the first was in Colorado in 2022), and preliminary analysis of the strain in the new case suggests no new mutations of concern.
"This...
New research offers an easy prescription to get people to roll up their sleeves for a flu shot.
Just ask them to.
And then reinforce the invitation with a little video and print encouragement.
"Our study adds to the growing body of knowledge showing that a number of important public health interventions can and should be delivered to underserved populations in emergency ...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
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- March 26, 2024
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The flu is more likely to lead to a neurological disorder than COVID, according to a new study that surprised its authors.
"While the results were not what we expected to find, they are reassuring in that we found being hospitalized with COVID did not lead to more care for common neurological conditions when compared to being hospitalized with influenza," study co-author
Bird flu has mutated to spread more easily between birds and marine mammals, increasing the potential risk to humans, a new study warns.
Four sea lions, one fur seal and a tern found dead in Argentina all tested positive for the avian influenza virus H5N1, researchers report.
Further, genetic analysis revealed that the virus was nearly identical in all the animals, and shared adapta...
America's most popular cold medications contain a nasal decongestant that doesn't work, creating a knotty dilemma for regulators, a new study reports.
Cold remedies containing phenylephrine remain consumers' most popular choice, despite decades of concern that the decongestant simply isn't effective, researchers say.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to pu...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- February 9, 2024
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A disturbing number of people sick with an infectious disease conceal their illness to avoid missing work, travel or social events, new research reveals.
About three in four people (75%) had either hidden an infectious illness from others at least once or might do so in the future.
These folks reported boarding planes, going on dates and engaging in other social activities while sic...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 31, 2024
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The old saying "feed a cold, starve a fever"is baloney, doctors say.
People fighting off a seasonal respiratory virus need adequate nutrition, regardless of their symptoms, according to advice from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
Fever is just one of the many defense mechanisms the human body uses to stave off any infection, said
THURSDAY, Jan. 25, 2024 (HealthDay news) -- It's been said that closing the toilet lid before flushing can prevent the spread of all germs, by keeping any flush-produced mist in the bowl.
But a new study refutes that, showing that tiny viral particles spread to many restroom surfaces during toilet flushing -- whether the lid is up or down.
The only effective way of reducing the spre...
The maker of Robitussin has recalled eight lots of Robitussin Honey CF Max Day Adult and Robitussin Honey CF Max Nighttime Adult cough syrups.
The products, which are made by Haleon, may be contaminated with a microbe, and "in immunocompromised individuals, the use of the affected product could potentially result in severe or life-threatening adverse events such as fungemia or disseminate...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- January 25, 2024
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