Researchers at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill are working on using wearable devices and smartphone apps to track the flu among college students.
Feeling sick, achy, coughing, sneezing, headachy too? A new Facebook app won’t make the flu go away, but it suggests it can help you track down who made you sick. The flu is now showing in 82 percent ...
The United States may be heading into its second severe flu season in a row, driven by a mutated strain called subclade K ...
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WASHINGTON — Health experts are warning that the federal government shutdown could make it harder to track the spread of viruses just as the U.S. braces for what could be an early and severe flu ...
NEW YORK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Researchers and computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University have devised a way to track cases of influenza across the United States using the microblogging site ...
A summary of the major developments in the H1N1 outbreak. June 11, 2009— -- Below is a timeline of the events in the rapidly changing flu outbreak. For answers to frequently asked questions and ...