News tagged with 'Flu Season'

A new study suggests pregnant women who get a flu shot a month before delivery will help to prevent most cases of influenza from developing during the first six months of their babies' lives.

U.S. health officials announced Tuesday that they have approved vaccines for the 2008-09 flu season that include new strains of the virus most likely to circulate this season.

Flu manufacturers say they are ready to produce even more doses of the flu vaccine for the upcoming fall flu season despite the fact that last years was only 44 percent effective. Federal health officials are meeting in Atlanta this week to try and predict what to be prepared for this year.

This year’s flu season is the worst in three years according to the Centers for Disease Control, made worse because the flu vaccine was not particularly effective. Cases of the flu are still being reported, even though this year’s season peaked in mid-February...