Professor Sir Stephen Powis, the boss of NHS England, said: "The tidal wave of flu cases and other seasonal viruses hitting ...

Birmingham has been hit by four different viruses, putting extreme strain on hospital services. Flu has come earlier and hit ...

The UKHSA (UK Health Security Agency) describe the four horsemen of the 2024 festive season as Covid-19, flu, respiratory ...

NHS leaders warn that hospitals are bracing for a 'quad-demic' of disease over the winter months with the number of daily flu ...

Cows don’t typically get the flu. The recent H5N1 flu outbreak in U.S. dairy herds is a wake-up call, not just about the ...

It is a play on the word “pandemic” – described by the Dictionary of Epidemiology as an “epidemic occurring over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries, and usually affecting a large ...

The number of hospital beds in England occupied by patients with flu has increased by 70% in a week, NHS England said, as it warned of a “tidal wave of flu hitting hospitals”. Health leaders said ...

Symptoms of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, may start off similar to a common cold, with sneezing and a runny nose. But ...

Winter brings with it a higher risk of infectious diseases. Here are the common viral outbreaks seen in the United States and ...

The H5N1 case, confirmed by the CDC, is still perplexing as the child was not known to have been exposed to sick livestock or infected animals. Additional public health news is about listeria, ...

Sometimes called the stomach flu, data shows norovirus outbreaks in 2024 are slightly higher than previous years. Is that ...