Category: flu

Bird Flu Costs Pile Up as Outbreak Enters 2nd Year

OMAHA, Neb.—The ongoing bird flu outbreak has cost the government roughly $661 million and added to consumers’ pain at the grocery store after more than 58 million birds were slaughtered to limit the spread of the virus. In addition to the cost of the government response that the USDA tallied up and rising prices for…


Moderna mRNA Flu Vaccine Trial Reports Mixed Results, Higher Adverse Reaction Rate

A large-scale human trial of Moderna’s mRNA seasonal flu vaccine yielded mixed interim results in terms of effectiveness and safety, the company said Thursday. The experimental vaccine, called mRNA-1010, is developed using the same technology as Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines. It works by instructing the body’s cells to assemble hemagglutinin, a protein on the surface of…


Slovakia Reports Outbreak of H5N1 Bird Flu on Farm: WOAH

PARIS—Slovakia has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus on a farm in the western part of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health said on Monday. The outbreak near the town of Galanta killed 1,530 poultry birds out of a flock of 5,665, the Paris-based body said, quoting…


UK Government Urged to ‘Get a Grip’ on NHS Emergency Care Amid Reports of Hundreds of Deaths

The government has been urged to “get a grip” of the crisis in England’s hospitals amid claims that up to 500 people a week are dying because of delays with emergency care. The president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Dr. Adrian Boyle, told Times Radio: “What we’re seeing now in terms of…


Natural Alternatives to Flu, COVID and RSV, Among Drug Shortages

With the present shortages of over-the-counter medicines for coughs, colds, and flu, this seems like the perfect time to talk about natural remedies. These can be helpful when we either don’t have medications on hand, or simply want a more natural approach to dealing with common illnesses. Natural medicines are beneficial as they are non-toxic…


Amid Drug Shortages, Alternative Treatments for Fever and Cough

With the present shortages of over-the-counter medicines for coughs, colds, and flu, this seems like the perfect time to talk about natural remedies. These can be helpful when we either don’t have medications on hand, or simply want a more natural approach to dealing with common illnesses. Natural medicines are beneficial as they are non-toxic…


Capitol Report: Rep. Jordan Says White House Colluded With Big Tech; CCP to Be Investigated for Bioweapons Threat

Rep. Jim Jordan, likely soon to be the next chair of the House Judiciary Committee, is demanding documentation from five tech giants. Jordan says the five major companies colluded with the Biden administration to censor voices. A government shutdown has been averted, and now Congress is on track to pass a spending bill next week….


Will the Term ‘Long Flu’ Join ‘Long Covid’?

Some laypeople, patients, and public health observers have begun using the term “long flu” as a way to describe long-term or chronic symptoms arising after the flu, mirroring the use of the term “long COVID” to describe the lingering effects of that virus. Uncertainty surrounded COVID-19 in its earliest days, stemming from the fact that…


Scientists Struggle to Explain Why COVID Spared Unjabbed

The media has done its best to whip people into a frenzy over the possibility of COVID, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) colliding this winter in a ‘tripledemic.’ Yet, anyone with an ounce of understanding of how viruses work knows that warped narrative is just about scientifically impossible. STORY AT-A-GLANCE “Vaccine equity” remains high…


CDC Alert: 44 States Experiencing High Levels of Respiratory Illness

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that influenza is on the rise across the United States, and 44 states are experiencing high levels. The agency said that 31 U.S. jurisdictions, which include territories and the District of Columbia, have “very high” levels, while 16 areas had “high” levels as of…