flu season

(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) To avoid producing vaccines that treat the wrong strains during flu season, the FDA should consider deferring some of its selections as well as other changes to the vaccine composition, according to a study by two decision analysts published in a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Flu vaccine manufacturers expect to make a record number of doses for next flu season despite concerns that demand may drop because this year's vaccine was largely ineffective....

As flu season winds down, it appears the Puget Sound region fared better than most of the rest of country.

This flu season has shaped up to be the worst in four years, partly because the vaccine didn't work well against the viruses that made most people sick, health officials said Thursday.

ATLANTA (AP) -- The current flu season has shaped up to be the worst in four years, partly because the vaccine didn't work well against the viruses that made most people sick, health officials said Thursday....

ATLANTA -- Although influenza is still circulating in the U.S., an interim analysis has already suggested the season was "moderately severe," the CDC said today.

ATLANTA -- This year's flu season has shaped up to be the worst in four years, partly because the vaccine didn't work well against the viruses that made most people sick, health officials said Thursday.

ATLANTA (AP) -- This year's flu season has shaped up to be the worst in three years, partly because the vaccine didn't work well against the viruses that made most people sick, health officials said Thursday....

CDC: It's been a "moderately severe" flu season, and the lowest-in-a-decade effectiveness of this year's flu shot -- 44% -- didn't help.

Millions of Americans took the advice to get a flu shot this season, but many are still becoming infected with the flu.

This flu season is lasting longer than initially expected and has introduced unforeseen new strains of the virus, making other flu prevention steps even more important.