27 September 2022
Last year's warnings about a particularly bad flu season didn't materialise, but an earlier and more severe outbreak in Australia doesn't bode well for the northern hemisphere
15 June 2022
People who are usually physically active had increased antibody levels if they exercised around the time they received their flu shot
10 May 2022
Viruses sequenced from century-old lung samples in German and Austrian museums have shed light on how flu can change over time
15 September 2021
The new social norm of isolating when ill with covid-19 should apply to other infectious diseases such as flu, says Jonathan Goodman
2 June 2021
A man has been infected with the H10N3 strain of bird flu in China, but the risk of the virus spreading between people is thought to be low
13 July 2020
The UK has three months to avoid a potential second wave of infections in the winter that could lead to 120,000 hospital deaths, finds a report requested by the government’s chief scientific adviser
4 June 2020
“Swine flu” is the common name for a disease that emerged in January 2009, causing a pandemic that lasted until the middle of the following year. It is caused by a novel strain of the influenza virus called H1N1.
13 May 2020
What do we know about how long cold, flu and coronaviruses can live on surfaces?
1 May 2020
Australia recorded just 229 flu cases this April, compared with 18,705 last April, probably due to lockdown measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus
21 April 2020
Anosmia is the loss of your sense of smell. It has a number of causes and can be permanent or temporary.
