Flu

Missouri health officials are urging people to get a flu shot this year to prevent a repeat of 2017’s brutal flu season.As of Oct. 6, health officials…

The St. Louis County Department of Public Health reports 1,282 cases of influenza in the first week of January. The illness is also causing a low blood…

After a record number of influenza cases in St. Louis County in the last week of 2017, the numbers have dipped, but only slightly. The St. Louis County…

How bad will flu season be this year?Well, it’ll be bad for you, if you catch it. So, get a flu shot, health officials say.Officials with the Centers for…

Sometimes we swap more than stories when we gather around the Thanksgiving table.Flu season generally runs from late fall into early spring, but the…

The number of people getting the flu is on the way back down in the St. Louis region. It spiked slightly earlier this month.The St. Louis County health…

A Washington University professor has a possible business solution to a perennial public health problem: flu vaccine shortages.Olin Business School…

Shots aren’t for everyone, but the manufacturer of a nasal spray version of the vaccine experienced a technical issue early in the season that caused…

After spiking in early January, cases of the flu appear to have subsided in the St. Louis area.According to the St. Louis County Health Department, the 92…

In the past few weeks, the St. Louis region has seen a dramatic increase in the number of flu cases. The dangerous H1N1 strand that appeared in 2009 is…