The CDC estimates the flu has made at least 29 million people sick and resulted in 16,000 deaths since October 2024. Read ...

Flu infections have reached the highest level since the winter of 2010 and 2011 when the swine flu swept across the nation, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.

The CDC was instrumental in eradicating smallpox, identifying the causes of HIV and encouraging Americans to get the COVID-19 ...

CDC holds that vaccines are a safe, effective way to protect your health and prevent the spread of flu, COVID, measles. What ...

The landscape of COVID-19 mortality has evolved dramatically since the start of the pandemic. In 2023, the United States saw ...

As flu season grips the US with the highest levels in over a decade, the CDC's latest announcement paints a concerning ...

Seasonal flu cases in the United States have reached their highest level in over a decade with even influenza-related deaths ...

This is the worst flu season in the United States in nearly a decade. So far, the country has recorded 29 million flu ...

Partial CDC data suggest that influenza deaths may have already reached as high as 2% of deaths for the week ending on Feb. 1 ...

Nationally, the test positivity rate for the week ending on February 8, was 4.8 percent, according to the CDC's most recent update on its COVID Data Tracker.

According to a CDC spokesperson, the week ending on Jan. 25 was the first time the percentage of deaths due to the flu was higher than the percentage of deaths due to COVID. That week, 1.7% of ...

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 ...