The flu that is currently going around is type B. About 97 percent of flu virus cases detected last week were type B. In contrast, type A, which was dominant during the winter, has sharply declined.

This flu season medics have been struck by the uptick of cases involving the type B flu virus, which has been predominating the season for the first time in 27 years.

Type B viruses—which are dominating this flu season so far—don't do any of this. Their Has and Nas genetically "drift" relatively slowly. Type B viruses also only infect humans and, oddly ...

There are different types and subtypes of flu. We’ll take a look at influenza A vs. B in terms of prevalence, how contagious they are, what the vaccine covers, and severity and recovery. While ...

During the 2017-18 season, which led to 79,000 deaths related to the flu, the CDC estimated flu vaccines prevented more than 7 million flu cases, 3.7 million visits to the doctor, 109,000 ...

Amid a flu season that’s claimed 60 lives in North Texas, health officials report that flu Type B is on the rise. And even if you've had the flu ...

All four flu pandemics — in 1918, 1957 and 1968 and the swine flu pandemic of 2009 — were caused by Type A viruses. Influenza B viruses, however, only circulate in humans.

One of them, the so-called Yamagata-lineage of type B influenza, was struggling to compete before the pandemic and hasn’t been seen since March 2020, said Ian Barr, ...

Flu A tends to cause more ear infections than flu B, but type B is associated with more seizures, vomiting and diarrhea, said Dr. Sherif Mossad, an infectious disease doctor at the Cleveland Clinic.

Influenza A is more commonly seen earlier in flu season, in the winter months, while influenza B seems to crop up later, ...

Now, it looks like type B flu may be beginning to wane while influenza A may be on the rise. And we’re probably far from done with flu season. According to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- The flu season in Chicago is starting with a twist. As CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot reported Monday, a certain type of influenza virus that we usually see near the end of the season ...