The Trump administration has not staffed an office established by Congress to prepare the nation for future pandemics, ...

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 ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

The emergence of bird flu in Florida, particularly its impact on dolphins, raises concerns about potential human transmission ...

Five years after the novel coronavirus emerged, historians see echoes of other great illnesses, and legacies that are unlike ...

Five years ago this month, COVID-19 changed the world. The first pandemic in a century altered how Americans saw themselves, ...

This year’s flu season has reached a new milestone, according to preliminary data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Flu deaths are outpacing COVID-19 deaths for the first ...

RSV, respiratory syncytial virus, usually peaks in December and January while infecting the nose, throat and lungs, usually causing mild, cold-like symptoms, the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The U.S. has seen earlier and more intense surges of the flu and RSV this year than is typical, pediatrician Dr. Ryan Fulton notes.

Vaccine hesitancy was rising even before COVID-19 emerged – but the pandemic exacerbated the trend. More kindergartners are ...

Despite the recent decline, the share of positive flu tests and overall cases remain higher than the same timeframe in 2024.

Enter wastewater surveillance — a tool public health officials used during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to monitor the virus' spread. But new research led by Oregon State University shows that ...