influenza

Flu shot clinics are scheduled at baseball stadiums in Detroit and Lansing Monday and Tuesday. It’s part of a push to get millions of Michiganders…

Michigan has a goal to vaccinate about one million more people for the flu this year than it did last year, and so far, we’re making steady progress.…

The disease COVID-19, which is caused by the novel coronavirus, continues to spread throughout the world. At the moment, the World Health Organization…

Some schools in West Michigan have been forced to close in the past few weeks because of outbreaks of "flu-like illnesses."Holland West Elementary closed…

The current flu season has turned deadly for two Michigan children.They are the first pediatric flu fatalities of the current influenza season.The…

Pregnant women and people with chronic health conditions such as asthma, diabetes and heart disease are particularly vulnerable to flu complications yet lag the elderly in getting vaccinated.

Four children in Michigan may have a rare condition known as acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM.AFM affects a person’s nervous system, specifically the spinal…

The number of flu cases reported over the last month across Michigan has been going down. But thousands continue to be reported weekly, and it's premature…

The winter of our discontent drags on. That discontent has a name: the flu. Our nation is in the middle of an especially bad – and deadly – flu season.…

Health experts say we can catch the flu if someone coughs near us. But now there’s evidence we can spread the influenza virus into the air just by…