Columbus Zoo tightens precautions to protect animals from bird flu, closing some exhibits. POWELL, Ohio — As the bird flu ...

Apathy about shots, diseases like flu may be just as big a threat to public health efforts as vaccine mistrust.

There’s a troubling trend when it comes to flu vaccination rates among older adults, Montrose County Public Health Director ...

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a ...

Even as more people are dying from flu, the Trump administration has postponed vaccine planning for next fall's flu season.

Not long after the first flu shot was introduced in 1945 by University of Michigan virologist Thomas Francis and his ...

People at risk of exposure to avian flu on the Isle of Man have been invited to take up the offer of a flu vaccine. Manx Care and the island's public health directorate said it wanted to lower the ...

The NUDGE-FLU (Nationwide Utilization of Danish Government Electronic Letter System for Increasing Influenza Vaccine Uptake) trial was conducted during the 2022-2023 influenza season in adults ...

“COVID and flu shots work, but exercise prevents all respiratory infections.”The link between exercise and illness prevention and recovery may be one reason qigong is increasingly studied toda ...

The effectiveness of annual flu vaccines varies depending on how well the vaccine matches the circulating virus. The effectiveness of vaccines ranges from 19% to 60% in any given season.

Now there are growing worries about next year’s flu vaccinations. This week, the Food and Drug Administration — now with vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the helm — unexpectedly and ...

The Food and Drug Administration’s abrupt decision on Wednesday to cancel next month’s vaccine advisory committee meeting — where experts recommend the strains for next season’s flu shot ...