A federal vaccine advisory panel voted this week to recommend significant updates to the nation’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza vaccination policies, signaling a new direction ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pulled back a public health campaign promoting the flu vaccine as cases of the ...

Flu vaccine effectiveness in South America was 35% against hospitalization. ... A CDC spokesperson said that the effectiveness of the vaccine for H1N1 was "within the range" of previous seasons.

The flu vaccine, for everyone ages 6 months and older, is crucial, Dr. Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, a medical epidemiologist in CDC’s Influenza Division, previously told USA TODAY.

Two types of influenza viruses are responsible for seasonal flu outbreaks: Influenza A and B. Influenza A accounts for around 75 percent of all cases and tends to cause more severe illness in adults.