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Topic: Influenza

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. delivers a speech outlining his foreign policy vision at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel sparks alarm

Blaise Malley
Marble Roman bust with a surgical mask over its face. (Getty Images / OsakaWayne Studios)

Colonialism is at the root of pandemics

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Rescued chickens gather in an aviary at Farm Sanctuary’s Southern California Sanctuary on October 5, 2022 in Acton, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Your questions about bird flu answered

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Young female patient in the clinic suffering a coughing fit while the doctor listens to the her lungs with a stethoscope. (Getty Images/stefanamer)

Is it seasonal influenza or bird flu?

Nicole Karlis
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Ducks with bird flu also known as poultry flu are collected and put in a container on Pommernhof in Zarnewanz near Rostock, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on November 28, 2024 in Zarnewanz, Germany. (Frank Soellner/Getty Images)

Is climate change making bird flu worse?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A virologist at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts works in her lab, tracking the avian influenza virus. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

First severe bird flu case in Louisiana

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A vet takes a sample from the mouth of a swan during an animal disease exercise. (Christoph Reichwein/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Bird flu could mutate to become worse

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A microbiologist tests poultry samples collected from a farm located in a control area for the presence of avian influenza, or bird flu, at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on March 24, 2022 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Mysterious bird flu cases worry experts

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Workers perform milking operations in the interior of a dairy parlor at a large California dairy/San Joaquin Valley, California, USA. (Ed Young/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

More suspected human bird flu cases

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Curious Holstein dairy cows feed on silage in a freestall barn at a dairy farm in San Joaquin Valley, California, USA. (Ed Young/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Experts worried humans getting bird flu

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Sign of the World Health Organisation (WHO) at their headquarters in Geneva. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

WHO lists pandemic potential pathogens

Matthew Rozsa
Little girl coughing into elbow while being at medical clinic (Getty Images/Drazen Zigic)

Respiratory illnesses rising in the US

Matthew Rozsa
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Baby was sick as Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in kid hospital (Getty Images/graphixchon)

A hospital bed shortage fueled by greed

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
A 5 year old child in a hospital bed at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla NY (Getty Images/OsakaWayne Studios)

Seasonal viruses are affecting kids more

Rebecca S.B. Fischer, Annette Regan - The Conversation
Boy lying sick on the sofa at home while his mother takes care of him and helping him to measure his temperature with a digital thermometer. (Getty Images/miljko)

COVID-19 increases seizure risk in kids

Matthew Rozsa
Himesh Patel in "Station Eleven" (Ian Watson/HBO Max)

How realistic is "Station Eleven's" flu?

Nicole Karlis
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Steve Farzam, chief operating officer of 911 COVID Testing, shows a multiple antigen test for flu and COVID-19 on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 at the site near the Getty Center in Los Angeles where a teenage boy tested positive for "Flurona. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

"Flurona": the co-infection, explained

Nicole Karlis
Warehouses that were converted to keep the infected people quarantined. The patients are suffering from the 1918 Influenza pandemic. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Sick and tired, ready for pandemic’s end

J. Alexander Navarro - The Conversation
Time lost in the COVID-19 pandemic year (Getty Images)

A history of how pandemics change us

Matthew Rozsa
Nurse Practitioner wears personal protection equipment as she administers a flu vaccination (Getty Images)

The holy grail of flu vaccines

Matthew Rozsa
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Ron DeSantis (Getty/Drew Angerer)

DeSantis calls COVID lower risk than flu

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
(NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. cities preparing for coronavirus

Nicole Karlis
People wearing facemasks to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city, wait at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan on January 24, 2020. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty)

The deadly disease lurking near you

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
Sick in bed, with tissues and tea (Getty Images/sestovic)

Here's how to avoid this year's flu

Shira Tarlo
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