The pediatric death is the fifth of the flu season which started on October 1, 2024. According to the latest report from the ...

The US Health Secretary wants to let bird flu spread and breed the chickens that survive. Is it science or small government ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the current winter presented unusually high flu risk.

Influenza levels in the US are the highest they've been in 15 years amid winter weather and a second wave of the virus.

The CDC has issued interim effectiveness estimates for the 2024-2025 seasonal influenza and 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines.

This influenza season has been particularly severe in the United States, with CDC data showing a rate of hospitalization related to flu that is higher than any other season in the past 14 years.

Minnesota officials have quarantined a Stearns County dairy herd after milk samples tested positive for the H5N1 strain of ...

As spring bird migration brings thousands of birds to Washington state, it also increases the risk of avian influenza (bird ...

And this year is brutal," said LaPook. Every season, the CDC's scientists test a sample of flu viruses collected from labs around the country against strains that health authorities had picked out ...