The CDC has issued interim effectiveness estimates for the 2024-2025 seasonal influenza and 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines.

In a briefing to member states today, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today urged ...

Previous exposures to older flu strains prime the immune system to produce antibodies against bird flu (H5N1).

Based on the data presented, the committee agreed that there was a need to change the influenza A/H3N2 virus strains from the 2024-2025 Formula. Recommendations on the strain composition of ...

H5 Influenza Vaccines: What Needs to Be Done to Reduce the Risk of a Pandemic Sep. 4, 2024 — As the global threat of H5N1 influenza looms with outbreaks across species and continents including ...

The spread of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza, bringing losses of hundreds of millions of poultry worldwide with increased spillover into mammals, highlights the urgent need for strengthened ...

The FDA is recommending that flu vaccines for the 2025-26 season be trivalent, protecting against two strains of influenza A and one of influenza B. “The FDA anticipates that there will be an ...

The rapid spread of the highly infectious avian flu virus H5N1 has reached an “unprecedented” scale, wiping out hundreds of ...

During the 2010-2011 to 2024-2025 influenza seasons, 9% of pediatric influenza-associated deaths had influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis (IAE).