unlike the flu or cold, that seem unrelated to the original infection. The two illnesses are both contagious and have similar ...

Flu activity remains elevated nationally but has decreased for two consecutive weeks as of Feb. 22, the CDC announced. "Data ...

Kids have been hit especially hard: as of February 22, 98 children—most of them unvaccinated—have died from flu in the U.S. this season. There has also been an increase in severe neurological ...

Weekly numbers show that 2% of U.S. deaths for week 5 were due to the flu. COVID was responsible for 1.5% of deaths in the nation, the numbers show.

The worst flu season the United States has had in more than a decade may have reached its peak, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data published by the agency on ...

These estimates of effectiveness against hospitalization, released Thursday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, are considered high for flu vaccines. But another metric of the shot ...

The influenza virus, COVID-19 and the common cold are caused by different viruses ... and can have different onset periods, the CDC said. Flu symptoms may appear within one to four days of ...