Health experts are looking very closely at the spread of swine flu among people in Spain, Britain and Japan, a WHO official said yesterday as Japan reported a one-day explosion of over 70 new cases, ...

The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections are trending downward, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ...

One year ago, a human infection of bird flu was reported in Texas. One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in the United States was reported in a Texas dairy worker, just weeks after the ...

The flu is skyrocketing in NJ, but is it too late to get the shot? Is it even effective, and will it make me get sick? Here's what doctors say.

While H5N1 bird flu ratchets up anxiety and egg prices, seasonal influenza viruses are rallying to a second high this winter, an uncommon course not seen in most years. Flu cases had previously peaked ...

Pigs could play a key role in ending the flu as we know it. That’s the message behind new research testing a computer-designed vaccine that protects swine from flu—and may one day do the same for ...

Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A stomach bug and not the swine flu is suspected in the illness that sickened 70 campers and staff and led to the closure of YMCA ...