Predictions for the 2023-2024 Flu Season: What Can We Expect This Flu Season?

Misconceptions about the flu and flu vaccine myths keep people from understanding how to protect themselves from the flu.

After an early, rough start to the 2022-2023 flu season, what lies ahead? Patterns in past flu seasons, current flu vaccination rates and other factors give some useful insights.

Among children who had flu and COVID at the same time during 2021-2022, those who had gotten a flu vaccine tended to have less severe illness.

Flu and other respiratory viruses are surging. Flu vaccines can help protect against flu and its complications, yet fewer are getting vaccinated than before.

Read about the impact of seasonal flu--and of vaccinations.

Certain people may have higher risk factors for influenza complications.

Dr. Rachel O'Mara, private physician, describes some of the experiences her patients have had with influenza.

Did you know? Influenza viruses are constantly mutating or changing. One way in which they change is referred to as antigenic drift.

Learn how flu symptoms compare to symptoms of other common illnesses.

How influenza led to pandemics, health crises, scientific discoveries, vaccine innovations and disease prevention.