The vaccine, along with commonsense precautions, can go a long way toward making even this year’s flu more a miserable inconvenience than a life-threatening illness.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's winter and with the holidays near, the 2025-2026 flu season has hit the U.S. with flu cases on the rise in New Jersey, with ...

Sickness is surging across the United States following the holiday season, bringing thermometers and medicine to homes amid presents and Christmas dinner leftovers. New York state especially has been ...

The flu season is ramping up in a big way as an influenza A H3N2 mutation called subclade K drove a near 15% increase in clinical lab tests and a hospitalization rate of 11 people per 100,000, ...

Experts recommend vaccines by end of October, but shots remain effective in winter. Flu vaccine halves medical visits; vulnerable groups gain largest benefit from shots. Vaccines cause only mild, ...

Flu is making people miserable from coast to coast, thanks in large part to a new strain called subclade K. That’s why infectious disease experts are telling people to run, not walk, to get this ...

Flu is surging across most of the U.S. But, amid an early, harsh season, there is a glimmer of promising news: The flu shot may be more effective than experts predicted. Early evidence shows that this ...

A new variant called subclade K is making up a majority of flu cases. As flu activity continues to increase in the U.S., public health experts have been urging Americans to get vaccinated to protect ...

Influenza A H3N2 subclade K has driven flu cases across the country, with 52 counties in Florida seeing increases over the past week. While the current flu vaccine might be a "mismatch," it still ...

Health experts typically advise getting your COVID-19 and flu vaccine by the end of October. However, if you've missed that window, you can still get them well into the respiratory virus season and ...