A new COVID variant is spreading, but U.S. vaccine rules have changed. Healthy people under 65, pregnant women, and kids are ...

During a call with U.S. doctors this month, one CDC official noted that there is a seasonality to bird flu: Cases peak in the fall and early winter, possibly due to the migration patterns of wild ...

(AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, file) This undated electron microscopic image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows two Influenza A (H5N1) virions, a type of bird flu virus.

Similarly, the CDC typically recommends that people get their flu vaccine by the end of October because flu season usually starts to pick up in November. But because seasonal virus trends have ...

Influenza, also known as the flu, is a viral respiratory illness that is most common during the fall and winter months. These viruses can spread when someone with the infection sneezes or coughs ...

Vaccine experts are perplexed by a project the Trump administration has launched to develop a universal flu vaccine, which has long been a goal, though an elusive one, in medical research. Dubbed ...

Annual flu shots could become a thing of the past under a new vaccine strategy developed and tested by University of Nebraska–Lincoln virologist Eric Weaver and his laboratory team. "This ...

It’s possible to get the flu even if you’ve been immunized. But you are less likely to die, be hospitalized, or be admitted to the ICU, Horney says. The CDC estimates that the 2023–2024 flu ...

At least 216 children died of influenza in the United States this past flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, the disease’s highest pediatric death toll in about 15 years.

In adults 65 and older, it outperformed the high-dose flu vaccine in three of the four strains. In both age groups, the vaccine also produced higher immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 compared to ...

CDC officials have information about underlying conditions on nearly 5,200 adults who were hospitalized with flu this season, and 95% had at least one existing health problem. But among 2,000 ...