Influenza D virus, a pathogen best known for causing respiratory illness in cattle, appears to be silently infecting farmworkers across multiple continents, according to a growing body of serological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new flu variant, H3N2 subclade K, is a mutation of the common flu A subtype, which is often the flu "going around" come late ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The flu epidemic is stabilizing. The positivity rate and other benchmarks for the week ending on Jan. 10 have decreased compared ...

The number of people getting sick with influenza B has gone up for three weeks straight, now making up about a third of flu ...

As one variant of the flu virus starts to decline, another is rising to take its place.

Over the holidays, U.S. flu cases skyrocketed. Weekly hospitalizations from the virus went from under 7,000 at the start of December to over 33,000 by the last week of 2025, surpassing rates of the ...

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Currently, flu levels are high across the country and many states, including Louisiana, are at or near peak levels for the season, according to MakeMyTestCount, a website from the National Institute ...

A new variant of the flu, dubbed by some as a super flu, is spreading across the United States. Weekly flu activity by state as of Dec. 20 shows high activity in Florida. Flu, cold or COVID? Symptoms ...