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With Flu Season Nearly Here, Medical Experts Warn That Trump’s Immigration Policy Is a Public-Health Threat

Proposed changes by the Trump administration that discourage immigrants from using public services come just ahead of flu season, according to epidemiologists.

Massoud Hayoun

Social Justice

How Cities Affect the Stomach Flu

A study in Bangladesh highlights markedly different disease dynamics in the urban core versus the more rural periphery.

Nathan Collins

Social Justice

The Flu Hits Harder in Poorer Neighborhoods

But there's a solution: the annual flu vaccine.

Francie Diep

Social Justice

Super Bowl Fever (of 102 Degrees)

Wash your hands, football fans: Sending a team to the Super Bowl increases a town's flu deaths by 18 percent.

Nathan Collins

Social Justice

The Current Flu Vaccine Isn’t Very Effective, but You Should Get It Anyway

It’s better to be safe than sorry, and there’s nothing about the flu vaccine that’s dangerous.

Cynthia Leifer

Social Justice

Doctors Are Not Prescribing the Right Kind of Drugs for the Flu

If you come down with the flu, your doctor is more likely than not to write out a prescription for the wrong type of drug.

John Upton

Social Justice

The Devastation of 1918: Finding Pockets of Hope in the Great Flu Pandemic

The influenza pandemic of 1918 has taught us many lessons and, according to new research, some of them are decidedly low-tech.

Anna Maria Gillis

Environment

In Man vs. Virus, The Win Goes to the Swift

The executive director of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine explains that while zoonotic diseases like swine flu are increasingly with us, quick public health reflexes can successfully clamp down on the outbreak. A Miller-McCune.com interview.

Joan Melcher