Asian shares took a sudden lurch lower on Tuesday as mounting concerns about a new strain of pneumonia in China sent a ripple of risk aversion thro

Asian shares took a sudden lurch lower on Tuesday as mounting concerns about a new strain of pneumonia in China sent a ripple of risk aversion thro

Approximately 44 percent of reported flu cases this season are affecting children age 17 and under.

A Georgia teen went into kidney failure for the first time, and his mom is now urging people to get the flu shot.

Slovakia detected its second case of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus at a farm in the west of the country, the Agriculture Ministry said

As the flu season gears up to be a tough one for children, parents may wonder why they are limited in where they can take their kids can get a flu

Flu activity sharply declined for the second consecutive week in metro Atlanta but remains widespread throughout the state.

Flu activity in the United States declined in the week ending January 11, according to new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevent

The emergence of an unlikely strain of influenza has sickened and killed an unusually high number of young people in California this flu season, ac

She’d been feeling achy and hadn’t had much of an appetite for the past couple days, but she had hoped to rally in time for the game.

Fitbits, wearable devices that measure resting heart rate and sleep time, hold promise in measuring flu at the state level, researchers found.

On Christmas Day, 16-year-old Kaylee Roberts opened presents at her aunt's house in suburban Cleveland, joyfully celebrating the holiday and l

Researchers reviewed de-identified data from users wearing Fitbits and found that they were able to do real-time flu prediction at the state level.

Flu season is always unpredictable.

"It was a flip of a switch; there were no warning signs," Phillips said.

Americans are urged to get flu shots every year, but there may be another factor that could sway them toward immunization: The country's risin

An economist says every 1-percentage point improvement in the country's employment rate boosts flu cases by 16%.

The mother of an 11-year-old Hamburg, New York boy who recently died from flu-related complications doesn’t want her son to be remembered as “just

Jade DeLucia, a 4-year-old from Iowa, is back home with her family after being struck with a case of the flu that, after a lengthy hospital stay, h

What should have been a night of sugarplum fairies dancing in their heads turned into a nightmare for an Iowa family.

With flu season moving toward its peak, Suffolk County announced Tuesday that it will offer free influenza immunizations for residents 6 months and

This year's flu vaccine is "not a very good match" for a common strain of the flu that's especially tough on children, accordin

"Mad Money" host Jim Cramer brings on Kristin Peck, the new CEO of animal drug provider Zoetis, to discuss how hog shortage in China is i

4-year-old Iowa girl was hospitalized after contracting the flu ahead of Christmas and suffered a seizure She suffered brain damage and blindness a