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In last year’s flu season, 80,000 people died, including 180 children, and 900,000 people were hospitalized, making it the worst…
As summer ebbs, influenza season is around the corner. Public health officials are beginning their annual campaign to urge people…
In February 1918, a Haskell County, Kan., paper, the Santa Fe Monitor, reported almost a dozen people were “quite sick”…
This year’s severe flu season has increased the spotlight on the development of a “universal” influenza vaccine – a vaccine…
Reporters covering the flu season know it has been one of the most severe in the past decade. As of…
Fellows in two of AHCJ’s health journalism fellowship programs attended today’s press briefing about ongoing public health emergencies with Health…
Public health officials have warned over the past several weeks the U.S. flu season this year may be worse than…
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Fall has arrived so it’s time for older adults to get their flu shots. Or is it? Older adults are…
One year it was MERS. Last year it was Ebola. This year it’s Zika. Every winter it’s influenza. Covering current…
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It’s the first week of January and winter seems to have finally arrived with a vengeance. In addition to the…