Flu activity remains high in most parts of the United States as a winter wave of respiratory illness sweeps across the ...

Sigh. I have been avoiding this in hopes that it would go away. But no. It’s here, and it will almost certainly get worse.

The directive to the CDC to halt communications with the World Health Organization was imposed to comply with President Trump ...

With a halt on scientific data being shared publicly, the CDC is getting crafty to warn of increasing flu hospitalizations.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released some new flu data to the public on Friday, despite the Trump ...

Nationally, the amount of influenza A virus in the nation's wastewater has risen, too, but remains in the moderate range, for the week ending Dec. 21, according to the CDC. "Seasonal influenza ...

Many states across the U.S. have been placed in the ‘high’ or ‘very high’ category in the CDC’s Weekly Influenza Surveillance Report, which assesses activity levels of respiratory illness.

The good news—for now—is that the CDC hasn’t detected any person-to-person spread and says avian influenza’s current risk to public health is low. That could change if not enough people ...

The current avian influenza outbreak led to the infection of 66 people in 10 states in 2024, CDC records show. Most cases, 36, were in California and tied to dairy cattle exposure. Washington and ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At the same time, recent CDC data shows that seasonal influenza A is rising ...

While it won’t protect you from H5N1 bird flu per se, immunization could play a pivotal part in warding off a bird flu pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The ...