influenza

This year’s flu season, which seemed to hit the ground running, may already be peaking in Massachusetts — at least for now. Boston doctors say things are looking up as flu hospitalizations level off, with the caveat that a second peak could be around the corner. Massachusetts still shows “very high” levels of flu activity, according to the U.S. Centers...

Top Boston doctors talk about rising COVID wastewater levels, the newly dominant XBB variant and whether Boston Public Schools should implement a temporary mask mandate during NBC10 Boston’s weekly “COVID Q&A” series.

Flu cases are surging in the Boston area and health officials are concerned that many people still haven’t gotten a flu shot.

Boston’s Health Commission has issued a warning amid an “early and rapid” rise of flu cases in the city. There have been more than 700 cases of influenza reported in the City of Boston in the last week, which brings the total number of cases in the city to 1,784 since Oct. 1, according to a news release. Boston health…

A jury has returned a $27 million verdict against a central Iowa medical clinic after a man with bacterial meningitis was misdiagnosed with the flu, suffered strokes and said he has been permanently injured. The jury in Polk County District Court in Des Moines returned the verdict Monday in the lawsuit filed in 2017 against UnityPoint Clinic Family Medicine in...

It’s cold and flu season again, which means you could be left wondering which virus is causing your symptoms. Here’s what you need to know.

This year’s flu vaccine is not a good match for the flu strain that is circulating this season

Farms that raise turkeys and chickens for meat and eggs are on high alert, fearing a repeat of a widespread bird flu outbreak in 2015 that killed 50 million birds across 15 states and cost the federal government nearly $1 billion

How will history honor the victims of the coronavirus pandemic? A new tribute in Vermont to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic offers one possibility.