Flu

"It is a very serious public health threat to the people of the United States," Alex Azar told Fox News.

The president also repeatedly pushed pharmaceutical executives on how quickly they could create a vaccine for the illness.

The bug known as 2019-nCoV has killed over 1,000 people and spread to over 25 countries and territories.

The death of Najee Jackson Jr. is coming under scrutiny after posts made by the mother in an anti-vaccine Facebook group indicate he was prescribed Tamiflu but the family chose natural "remedies" instead.

And why does it feel so much worse than a cold?

This season, medics have been struck by the predominance of a different strain of flu that can be particularly damaging to children—influenza B.

Each year, millions of children catch the flu in the U.S.

The flu virus is highly changeable, which is why a shot from one year won't work the next.

Over a quarter of the students at Minnesota's West Middle School were out sick Monday, during what some have called an "atypical" flu season for the state.

The vaccine is the "first and most important step in protecting against influenza and its potentially serious complications," according to the CDC.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus held a press conference Tuesday calling for flu shots to be provided for detained migrants, after a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy died of the flu while being held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Six children are among those who have died this year.

Some Cowboys players are getting past the flu, some are in the beginning stages and quarterback Dak Prescott is taking preventative medications.

A survey of 2,800 office employees reveals that 90 percent have gone to work sick at least once, with millennials the most likely to never miss a work day because of illness.

Difficulty in nailing down the predominant strains this year led Sanofi Pasteur to delay production of its flu vaccine by a month.

Even a rise in temperature of a degree or two can can increase the number of one particular type of "flesh-eating" bacteria in ocean water, an expert told "Newsweek".

Food, payment and logistics systems are connected. If one starts crashing, the chaos may cause other systems to crash, and before we know it we'll have massive shortages and conflicts.

Scientists have so far struggled to find ways of killing the bacteria which cause measles and the flu in the air before they enter our bodies.

The case served as a reminder of the importance of children getting their second vaccine dose, said the state epidemiologist.

The flu is easy to give to others and some people stay contagious for more than a week.

The level of effectiveness changes each year.

What to know about when to get your flu shot for the upcoming season.

The highly contagious virus has continued to spread.

Public health officials said the flu variant can be treated the same way as typical flu season strains.

Scientists believe men create more of a protein called amphiregulin which helps with healing.

The so-called "Spanish flu" of 1918 is thought to have killed between 50 and 100 million people around the world.

Researchers at St. Louis University have put a price on voluntarily coming down with the flu.

Unlike previous seasons, reports of the flu stayed high across all 50 states.

Although the flu is common, sometimes it can be life-changing.

The 2017-2018 flu season was one of the deadliest in recent history.