Sources: NBC News
The U.S. military says that it will require recruits to take the influenza vaccine amidst an influenza outbreak at the Lackland Air Force Base in Bexar County, Texas, U.S. The move comes after U.S. defense secretary Pete Hegseth lifted the military vaccine mandate. 2026-06-24
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that influenza in the United States is at its highest peak since the 2009 swine flu pandemic. 2025-02-7
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo announce an investigation into the deaths of 143 people from a flu-like disease in the Province of Kwango. 2024-12-3
Puerto Rico declares an influenza epidemic after 25,900 cases have been reported since July, with 42 deaths and more than 900 hospitalizations. 2023-11-9
A third person dies from an unidentified virus in Tucumán Province, Argentina. Authorities have ruled out COVID-19, influenza, and hantavirus, but continue to investigate the cluster of infections. The European Centre for Disease Control and the World Health Organization have also been notified. 2022-09-1
Israel reports the world's first case of "florona," which is believed to be a double infection of COVID-19 and influenza, in an unvaccinated pregnant woman who was admitted to the Rabin Medical Center to give birth. 2022-01-1
According to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, the flu causes his Vice President, Walter Mondale, 87, to be hospitalized at the famed Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota. 2015-03-7
The CDC reports that for the US flu season cases are early and pervasive being widespread in 29 states, especially the South and Midwest. 2014-12-19
A cluster of mysterious and serious respiratory illnesses that affected Southeast Alabama and killed 2 people was nothing more than the ordinary common cold, mostly rhinovirus, and seasonal influenza A. 2013-05-23
Leading international virologists agree to temporarily halt work on a more virulent strain of the H5N1 influenza virus, due to fears that an airborne strain of the lethal virus could be used by bioterrorists. 2012-01-21