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 ...

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

Experts say this is the worst flu season in the U.S. in more than a decade and cases are still trending up. Flu infections ...

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

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

The CDC’s incoming head, former Congressman Dave Weldon, a physician, has been commissioned by Trump to “ focus on the ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order withholding funding from schools and universities that require stude ...

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.

Around the world five years ago, alarms began ringing about a new coronavirus that scientists named SARS-CoV-2.

Eileen Yam and Giancarlo Pasquini contributed to this chapter. Five years after the pandemic began, Americans largely see ...

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

Administration officials last week informed CDC leaders of plans to cut up to 10% of its workforce as it targeted federal ...