“The single best way to reduce the risk of seasonal flu and its potentially serious complications is to get vaccinated each year,” according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many ...

Dear Doctors: My wife started getting sick a few days before Halloween. We were worried that it was going to turn into a bad respiratory illness, but it stayed in her nose and throat. That's a common ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — It’s not even mid-January, and we’ve already hit the peak of cold and flu season this year. In the latest episode of 12 Health, Shannon Hegy spoke with two medical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sneezing? Feeling congested? Coughing? Are these signs of flu season, a cold or allergies, or are they symptoms of COVID-19? What ...

Flu cases are surging across the United States, with 32 states and jurisdictions reporting high or very high activity. A new influenza strain, Subclade K or "super flu," has emerged, though it has not ...

ATLANTA — As an especially harsh flu season remains in full swing, much of the country will be huddling indoors this week as blasts of arctic air settle in across the eastern half of the United States ...

It's the time of sneezing, coughing, hacking and wheezing. Cases of the flu are surging throughout much of the United States as the new year begins. In its latest Influenza Surveillance Report, ...