All news on the topic: Flu

When you're poorly, the last thing you want to do is change your bedding more often - but it turns out that's the best way to make you better sooner, and spread less germs

Mum Claire is now urging people to get their flu jabs, after Jack's illness demonstrated how a person could be overwhelmed by influenza

This display of solidarity by Western nations sends a powerful message to Vladimir Putin that they remain steadfast in their support for President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people

A doctor has attempted to calm the worries of parents concerned why their children are 'always sick' over the winter period. Paediatrician Alasdair Munro said the winter is "particularly bad" for viruses

Levi Dewey became one of the sickest patients in the country, his parents were told, as they were warned he might not survive when he caught pneumonia that developed into sepsis

The opening weekend of her three-month stint in the show has received rave reviews so far but the production has now been subject to a last-minute change after one of Cheryl’s co-stars was forced to pull out

Kirsten Lorde believed her smiling daughter, now aged four, was ill with flu when she had a temperature and was coughing - but it turned out to be much worse

Dr Milan Chand says the 80-year-old arrived at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich with a suspected blood clot and suffered a cardiac arrest after enduring the overnight wait

The latest version of coronavirus could already account for 100 per cent of cases in some areas, according to the UK Health Security Agency

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Thousands of Brits are suffering from a nasty cough virus which seemingly refuses to go away, but experts have said this could be down to lowered resistance to infections.

A doctor has debunked a bizarre Tiktok health trend known as a 'potato sock', which claims to 'draw the cold out from your body' – and has even issued a warning before you're tempted to try it

Health Secretary Steve Barclay said he 'regretted' patients' experience but blamed a surge of flu in England's hospitals as he unveiled a plan to discharge thousands within weeks

The 64-year-old grandmother was left feeling exhausted and unable to walk to the toilet and says she will “be the first in the queue” for a flu jab next year"

Health Secretary Steve Barclay will today unveil a emergency winter package to alleviate the intense pressures on emergency departments - but care bosses warned it would not fix the crisis

Medics from Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Queen Elizabeth University Hospital have urged health bosses to declare a critical incident after pressure increases on the sites

In a harrowing account, junior doctor Andrew Meyerson, 40, said: colleagues were "crying in the car park, devastated and shell-shocked, haunted by the substandard care that they have been forced to deliver"

Professor Harold Ellis says that bed-cutting by the Tories is partly to blame for the current crisis which is overwhelming his 'beloved' NHS and leaving hospitals unable to cope

The husband branded her 'selfish' for asking him to stay at home and help with the kids while she was struck down with flu - people online are seething on her behalf

In this week's column Val, the mum of Mirror columnist and football legend Robbie Savage, says telling people to stay away from A&E because it’s full of flu and Covid patients leads to deaths

An average of 12,809 hospital beds a day last week were filled with patients ready to leave, up almost a third on the figure of 9,858 for this time last year

Despite repeated warnings the NHS is near collapse, the health secretary has been nowhere to be seen and barely anyone in Liverpool or Croydonw knew his name or recognised his picture when asked by The Mirror

Health chiefs have issued a warning about low supplies of common cold and flu medicines as pharmacists struggle to get hold of Calpol, throat lozenges and some painkillers

People in hospital with influenza has soared sevenfold over the past month as NHS England medical director renews his appeal for people to get jabbed as soon as possible

Pharmacy chiefs have warned of a concerning shortage in cough and cold medicines this winter amid cases of flu and Covid. The Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies has said shortages are on the back of supply chain issues