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To save lives in the next flu pandemic, tweak vaccine supplies

Health experts should only replenish flu vaccines in areas that need them, researchers argue in a new paper. More than 50 million people died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-19. Its 100th annivers... read more

Top 10 Threats to Global Health Include Flu Pandemic, Air Pollution

The world is facing multiple health challenges, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has published its list of the top 10 threats to global health in 2019 that will require attention from the agenc... read more

Study finds solution to gaps in US flu vaccine supply chain

ATLANTA (FOX 5 Atlanta) - Each fall, millions of Americans roll up their sleeves for a flu shot, without really thinking about where the vaccine comes from. But when the next pandemic hits, and a new ... read more

Do I really need a flu vaccination?

Instead, the most infectious and serious strains of influenza — such as the strain that caused the 1918 worldwide pandemic — have more often affected young, healthy adults. Most cases of death associa... read more

Something to sneeze at: global flu pandemic high on WHO's agenda

The world will face another influenza pandemic, although no one knows when and how severe it will be, says the World Health Organisation. The pandemic is high on WHO's agenda this year. The global hea... read more

What You Need to Know About Flu Season, And How to Stay Healthy

... the number of influenza-associated illnesses during the 2017-2018 flu season was the highest since the 2009 swine flu pandemic. There was an extended period of high flu activity around this time l... read more

Q&A: Even the young and healthy benefit from the flu vaccine

Instead, the most infectious and serious strains of influenza—such as the strain that caused the 1918 worldwide pandemic—have more often affected young, healthy adults. Most cases of death ... read more

Study: Changes to flu vaccine supply chain could save thousands of lives

Problems with flu vaccine distribution in the United States may cost lives and pose a serious threat in the event of a flu pandemic, researchers warn. However, a computer model shows that proposed cha... read more

CDC: 19 pediatric flu deaths nationwide; flu widespread in Massachusetts

Flu activity remains elevated across the country in terms of ... were the only age group to experience two seasons that were classified as very high severity (2003-04 and the 2009 pandemic). Every age ... read more

Swine flu kills at least 40 in India's Rajasthan state

A global pandemic alert for swine flu was declared by the World Health Organisation in 2009 after early outbreaks in North America spread rapidly around the world. Since late 2010, swine flu has been ... read more

Peak flu season begins in New Hampshire

H1N1 was responsible for a flu pandemic in 2009-2010, Daly said, when it was a new strain and not included in the nation’s flu vaccine. The vaccine is now designed to inoculate against H1N1. About 9 p... read more

CDC: Flu Has Sickened Millions So Far

It was the most severe flu season since the H1N1 pandemic in 2009, when an estimated 12,469 people in the U.S. died and nearly 61 million were sick with the flu, according to CDC researchers. An estim... read more