Pediatric influenza vaccination effectively prevents hospitalizations, though repeat annual doses may lead to a decrease in vaccine effectiveness.

The good news: As the weather is turning warmer, flu season is officially headed off a cliff. The bad news: The efficacy of ...

Health officials say the 2025-2026 flu season’s vaccine offered less protection than usual, as a mutated strain of influenza A dominated cases across the U.S. A strain known as H3N2 “subclade K” ...

The US FDA’s vaccine advisors have recommended that three new influenza strains be included in next winter’s influenza vaccine, aiming in part to tamp down illness caused by subclade K, a mutated form ...

Experts say they are feeling "nervous" as Australia approached this year's flu season, with a new, fast-moving strain of ...

Interim influenza vaccine effectiveness for the 2025 to 2026 season appears to be lower than in recent influenza seasons.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The World Health Organization (WHO) has outlined the benefits that improved influenza vaccines could offer, as the agency seeks to ...

Getting an annual influenza vaccine can reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke by a third, according to the Immunisation ...

Many kids are scared of getting needles, and this can stop them getting vaccinations that protect that against the flu. Less ...

Researchers from Leiden University, University of York, University of Barcelona/IQTCUB/ICREA and The Francis Crick Institute ...

Inside the rigorous, step-by-step process the CDC uses to create pandemic-ready flu vaccine viruses, long before the next global health emergency strikes. Study: Development of pre-pandemic influenza ...