A worsening flu outbreak among recruits attending basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, began earlier this month while an Air Force request to reinstate a mandatory flu shot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newly arrived Air Force recruits get instructions from Tech. Sgt. Kaleb Schmidt, left, at San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base in ...

The defense secretary described the vaccine requirement, which he lifted in April, as an “absurd, overreaching” mandate. By Greg Jaffe and Maggie Haberman Reporting from Washington A major flu ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A certified medical assistant holds a syringe for a flu vaccine at a clinic on September 10, 2025. - Lindsey Wasson/AP/File A ...

A flu outbreak has sickened more than 150 Air Force recruits in basic training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, according to the Air Force and national news reports. The upsurge comes two months ...