The health department urges the public to get the flu vaccine in anticipation of the upcoming influenza season.

The RSV virus causes illness mainly in young children but also contributes to respiratory illness in older individuals.

Study shows the importance of vaccination in preventing pneumonia deaths among older adults. Researchers recommend policy considerations for vaccination against influenza and RSV in the elderly ...

The world’s first potential case of bird flu passing from mammals to humans means New Zealand is “absolutely at the point” of needing a response plan in place, a top epidemiologist says Having jumped ...

As the magnitude of the bird flu outbreak in cattle becomes clearer, so does the need to quickly get a firmer grip on some basic facts. Namely, how far this H5N1 virus has spread, how it is spreading, ...

The H5N1 “bird flu” is ripping across America, decimating bird flocks and even infecting a few humans and other mammals.

GENEVA – A major landmark study to be published by The Lancet reveals that global immunization efforts have saved an ...

Tribune News NetworkDohaDuring the last week of April every year, the world comes together to mark the World Immunisation Week.This occasion is a global public health campaign aims at raising ...

In 1978, the year that China opened up, Alain Merieux, president of the Merieux Foundation, landed in China for the first time to introduce the vaccines developed by the Merieux Institute to the ...