A record number of influenza cases has been recorded in Australia, jumping 50 per cent from the same period last year.

In Australia, flu vaccines are accessible for individuals aged six months and older. While the vaccines may have limited efficacy in very young infants, pregnant mothers can provide their newborns ...

A public health adviser says the winter flu season appears to be kicking off early, as cases spike across the Tasman.

Elsewhere, many northern hemisphere countries have reported intense flu activity during the 2024–25 winter season. This has included several deaths in children. Although it’s difficult to make ...

The State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the InnoHK Center for ...

H7N9 — is detected in at a poultry farm; scientists learn that past human flu exposure may provide some immunity to H5N1.

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems might be primed to fend off a worse case, research finds.

There have already been at least 43 million illnesses, 560,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from seasonal influenza thus far, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Experts have warned that flu season may peak earlier this year. Paul Griffin, director of infectious diseases at Mater Health Services in Brisbane and associate professor of medicine at the ...

South Africa faces an annual health threat that claims more than 10 000 lives and leads to thousands of hospitalisations, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).