As the country grapples with a surge in flu cases, questions are being raised about whether the reintroduction of face masks ...

As the country grapples with a surge in flu cases, questions are being raised about whether the reintroduction of face masks could help ... week of December alone, England had 4,689 hospitalised ...

No matter where you look up the meaning of the word “plague”, it’s never a good thing. It can be confusing, because as a verb, plague means “to cause continual distress”, yet as a noun ...

The number of flu patients in hospitals in England is more than triple what it was a year ago amid “mammoth demand” on wards. NHS data published on Thursday showed there were 5,111 flu cases ...

The number of flu patients in hospital has risen across England for the sixth week in a row, figures released on Thursday morning show. Multiple hospitals declared or continued critical incidents ...

Cases of flu are continuing to soar as the latest data showed the number of hospital patients in England with the illness was five times higher than at the beginning of December. Data published ...

Emergency services in England are facing their busiest winter ever with flu cases soaring. More than 2.3m people attended A&E departments across the country last month. Ambulance services attended ...

The number of flu patients in hospitals in England is more than triple what it was a year ago amid “mammoth demand” on wards. NHS data published on Thursday showed there were 5,111 flu cases in ...

Patients in England are being advised to seek alternative services as growing pressure from flu and other respiratory illness cases forces many hospitals to declare a "critical incident." ...

A number of NHS trusts across England have declared critical incidents as flu cases spike. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital declared a critical incident due to "exceptionally high" demand ...

according to additional information posted by The New England Journal of Medicine. It’s still unknown how she was exposed to bird flu. The H5N1 virus “can cause severe human illness,” the ...

To address this, all staff, patients and visitors will be asked to wear fluid-repellent surgical face masks in inpatient ... of people in hospital with flu in England is rising at a “very ...