The National Academy of Sciences has canceled a workshop on preventing human bird flu infections after being told to stop ...

While pertussis — known as whooping cough — numbers have been spiking nationally, the South Dakota Department of Health ...

Flu activity continues to ebb nationwide, with rates of influenza-like illness (ILI) dropping further last week, but ...

Several measures can be adopted to avoid and combat the flu. However, it is important to note that viruses, like influenza, frequently change its structure to evade the immune system, resulting in new ...

Dubbed the Avian Flu Influenza Area Surveillance Testing or AFAST project, some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Under direction of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC is considering changes to its recommendations on vaccines ...

This was also the first year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that deaths from flu surpassed deaths from COVID.

Washington state recorded 388 influenza-related deaths between late 2024 and early 2025. Here’s why this winter’s flu season was so severe.

This year's flu season has become the state's deadliest in nearly a decade, with at least 388 deaths so far. Meanwhile, flu ...

An independent vaccine advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met to discuss and vote on ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC’s) vaccine advisory committee will meet on Tuesday for a two-day session to lay out new recommendations, including a proposal to scale back ...