“It’s baffling that he caught the flu again just three months later,” said his mother, surnamed Jung, 45. More children and adolescents like Lee are coming down with type B influenza. The ...

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

The flu season we are leaving behind will be remembered in many countries as one of the most intense in recent years. In ...

In Italy, there had never been as many people with the flu as in the winter of 2024-2025. There were 16.1 million. It would ...

The Global Virus Network is urging world leaders to collaborate on early preventative measures on avian flu so it doesn't ...

The influenza virus manipulates the body's gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread. A new study also shows that an already approved drug could help strengthen immune defenses -- though its ...

Of influenza-positive patients, 45% had type A(H1N1)pdm09, 32% had type B/Victoria, 18% had type A(H3N2), 6% had type A viruses of undetermined subtype, 1% were coinfected with type A and B ...

Influenza is part of a large family of viruses called orthomyxoviruses. This family contains several subtypes of influenza, referred to as A, B, C and D, which differ in their genetic makeup and in ...