Researchers created a new data-analysis system that looks at visits to Wikipedia articles, and found the system was able to estimate flu levels in the United States up to two weeks sooner than the flu ...

Researchers created a new data-analysis system that looks at visits to Wikipedia articles, and found the system was able to estimate flu levels in the United States up to two weeks sooner than the flu ...

There are four types of influenza virus: influenza A, B, C, and D. Types A and B are responsible for the flu epidemics that occur in the United States most winters. Influenza B usually causes a milder ...

Health officials in the United Kingdom are warning that this year’s flu season for the Northern Hemisphere is looking like it ...

The impact of influenza infection is felt globally each year when the disease develops in approximately 20 percent of the world's population. In the United States, influenza infections occur in ...

Influenza, or flu, is a viral infection that affects the respiratory system. Influenza A is one of four types of the virus, which can cause a cough, body aches, and a sore throat. The influenza A ...

Influenza A is more common and can infect various species, including humans, birds, and pigs, while influenza B primarily affects humans. Both influenza A and B are highly contagious and produce ...

When young, healthy soldiers began getting sick by the dozens in March, 1918, military physicians were baffled by what might be causing it. Courtesy: NARA At Fort Riley, Kansas, an Army private ...

One-third of American adults with diabetes mellitus (DM) don’t get the flu vaccine. The more risk factors they have, the less likely patients with DM are to receive the vaccine. Youth, black race, and ...

The source of the influenza illness remained a mystery to scientists as viruses were too small and obscure for the optical microscopes available in 1918. Credit: Naval Historical Society Of these, an ...