On today’s airing of the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show on 860 AM WGUL in Tampa, host Robert Herriman, after seeing a dramatic increase in cryptosporidiosis in Hillsborough County, FL this past...

In an announcement Thursday, Meriden, CT vaccine manufacturer Protein Sciences Corporation said The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved their  egg-free influenza vaccine, Flublok  for...

At least 20 people, including the elderly and children, have been hospitalized for seasonal influenza already this year in Wisconsin, prompting state health officials to advise residents to get flu shots. “The...

About a quarter of sailors immunized with the influenza vaccine on board the U.S. Navy minesweeper,USS Ardent contracted the flu, primarily H3N2 influenza, according to a study published in the latest...

The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services is reporting the state’s first flu death for the 2014-2015 flu season. An elementary school-aged child in the Triangle region of the State died last...

The World Health Organization (WHO) Thursday recommended changes to the influenza vaccine composition for the 2015 influenza season (southern hemisphere winter), which includes replacing the A/H3N2 and...

Updated information for the United States 2014–15 influenza season from the the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was published last month in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report...

October 19, 2013: Flu Shots And Travel Medicine LISTEN to the podcast here Today’s Guest: Duellyn Pandis, President and CEO of Passport Health of Tampa Bay The Outbreak News This Week Radio Show aired...