Flu vaccine as high as 59% effective for children 6 months to 8 years old: CDC The flu and pneumonia are now killing nearly 4,000 Americans each week, according to health official ...

Compared to the standard shot, the mRNA vaccine had an overall vaccine efficacy that was 26.6 percent higher, and 27.4 ...

The ACIP has recommended that patients only receive seasonal influenza vaccines that do not contain thimerosal.

Moderna Inc. said Monday its experimental flu shot showed positive results in a late-stage trial.   In a Phase 3 study, the ...

A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and ...

The CDC's newly rebuilt Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) took aim Thursday at a mercury-based preservative ...

Flu shots save lives across the United States every year. These vaccines are good at protecting the population from severe influenza infections, but not every person gets the same level of protection.

As bird flu sweeps across US poultry and cattle farms, researchers are racing to find ways to contain the outbreaks before they ignite a human pandemic. Now, a team of scientists has developed a ...

Why a teenager’s bird-flu infection is ringing alarm bells for scientists Last year, Hensley’s team showed that its vaccine protects against avian flu in ferrets 2, a commonly used laboratory ...

The study, which was released April 4 on the preprint server medRxiv and hasn't been published in a peer-reviewed journal, aimed to test the flu vaccine's effectiveness in about 53,000 Cleveland ...

Of the study population, 82% had received the seasonal flu vaccine – a typical percentage for healthcare settings where vaccination is often strongly encouraged or required. The results have ...

Data from the agency showed seasonal flu vaccine effectiveness – or how well the vaccine prevents severe illness and hospitalisation – changes per season with a 42 percent effectiveness rate ...