An mRNA-based seasonal flu vaccine from Moderna was 27 percent more effective at preventing influenza infections than a ...

Flu vaccines really do prevent the flu in infants, children, and adults. WebMD explains the reasons to get a flu shot each year, what kind to get, and who shouldn’t get one.

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 Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has issued new vaccine recommendations affecting RSV and flu ...

Flu shot season is upon us. Pharmacies began giving out the vaccines — which are recommended for everyone ages 6 months and older — last month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Flu shots will help farmworkers avoid illness and prevent the virus from combining with deadlier H5N1 bird flu. ... The best way to stop bird flu? Give farmworkers annual flu shots, CDC says.

Myth: The flu shot can give you the flu. This is a persistent myth, and it’s just plain wrong. Flu shots do not contain fully functioning flu viruses.

The vaccine doesn’t prevent all seasonal flu infections but reduces the most serious effects of an illness that killed about 45,000 people last season and sends hundreds of thousands to the ...

FluMist vaccine vs. flu shot The FluMist vaccine, manufactured by AstraZeneca, was approved in 2003 for health care providers to give patients, but the method has gotten renewed attention due to a ...

Can the Flu Shot Give You the Flu? In a statement to Health , the Cleveland Clinic said that the study's “results do not suggest that vaccination increases the risk of flu." ...