Delays in CDC analyses of infectious disease threats and agency silence will harm Americans, doctors and ...

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick ...

Poultry flocks infected with bird flu are culled to prevent the spread of the virus whereas culling wild birds is generally ...

The flu just won’t quit this year. The virus seemed to peak after the December holidays in Massachusetts, headed back down, ...

We talked to experts about where the science is on risks to humans and how the virus is messing with the food supply.

Says a pediatric infectious disease physician, “Our expectation is that we’re going to have several more weeks yet of a lot ...

The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years.

Low vaccination rates may also be contributing to this year’s sick season. As of late January, U.S. vaccine uptake was well ...

Flu activity begins to increase in October and often peaks between December and February, according to the Centers for ...

Influenza levels in the US are the highest they've been in 15 years amid winter weather and a second wave of the virus.

Influenza, COVID-19 and RSV are staples of the winter cold and flu season, but the measles, whooping cough and norovirus are ...

While we often refer to it as "the flu," the influenza virus has several strains, with flu A and flu B considered the most common and the most severe.