Flu

Health funds launch flu vaccination campaigns as supplies gradually reach clinics

Health officials are urging the public to get vaccinated early, warning of high infection rates among children and the risk of complications.

Flu vaccines at Clalit’s logistics center
A test tube labelled "Bird Flu", eggs and a piece of paper in the colours of the Australian national flag are seen in this picture illustration, January 14, 2023.

After mass seabird death event, Australia warns of wider H5N1 bird flu threat

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FDA approves world's first mRNA-based flu vaccine, signaling start of a new illness-prevention era

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Israel reports first bird flu outbreak in a year after disease detected in ducks in North


No link between flu shot, boy's death after 25 recipients die - S. Korea

Health authorities have refused to suspend the preventative campaign on Thursday, citing a lack of evidence to suggest direct links between the deaths and the vaccines.

A woman gets an influenza vaccine at a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, October 21, 2020.

Edelstein: By end of 2020, 4.2 million Israelis could receive flu vaccine

Health experts to begin discussing protocol for administering flu vaccine.

Vaccination against the flu

Two more cases of bird flu in Israel, ministry points to migrating birds

The first case was diagnosed at the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem in a swan, while the second case was discovered in chickens in a coop in Kibbutz Revadim.

Birds fly over the Dome of the Rock, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City

Flu vaccines expected to arrive in Israel late this year

"The best policy would be to hope for the best and prepare for the worst.”

An Israeli medical worker holds vials containing a vaccine for H1N1 flu virus in Tel Aviv, 2009

Facebook, Twitter oppose misleading Trump comparison of COVID-19 to flu

"We remove incorrect information about the severity of COVID-19."

U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in their first 2020 presidential campaign debate in Cleveland

1 in 3 Americans won't vaccinate their children against the flu

What is even more worrying is that two-thirds of parents don’t thing that getting their kids vaccinated against the flu is more pressing this year.

Doctor giving a vaccine to a patient (illustrative)

Hebrew U. research finds flu outbreak pattern during the winter

What they found was that weather prediction models were more effective in predicting flu outbreaks than singular variables such as temperature or rain.

FILE PHOTO: Nurse Jeff Gates processes a patient sample at a drive-through testing clinic for coronavirus, flu and RSV, currently by appointment for employees at UW Medical Center Northwest in Seattle, Washington, U.S. March 9, 2020

Flu vaccine with 24% more efficacy coming to Israel this winter

Between 70% and 80% of seasonal flu-related deaths have occurred in people 65 years and older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions.

Pre-filled M-001 universal flu vaccine syringes

Shaare Zedek ICU to be upgraded prior to influx of flu and coronavirus

"Our health system is working to be best prepared for the winter, with the goal of being ready to confront the coronavirus and the seasonal flu at the same time."

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein visits Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, August 23, 2020.

Cause for optimism? COVID-19 could curb spread of seasonal flu

“We really cannot tell how this will play out: The best policy would be to hope for the best and prepare for the worst.”

Ichilov Medical team at the coronavirus unit, in the Ichilov hospital, Tel Aviv, Israel, July 28, 2020.