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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that flu cases in the United States this season are at their highest levels since the 2009–2010 swine flu. For the first time, the death rate 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.

After going quiet on bird flu, CDC scientists have published a report on its spread among veterinarians. The findings suggest ...

That is the worst on record in the CDC's influenza surveillance network since late 2009, during the swine flu pandemic. While most flu seasons usually see a resurgence of infections after the ...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are hospitalized with the flu for H5N1 bird flu. Health care workers in ...

During the week ending Feb. 1, 8% of emergency department visits were due to flu compared with 3.2% the same time last year, according to the CDC data. Additionally, 31.6% of tests came back ...

As cases of H5N1, also known as avian flu or bird flu, continue to surface across the U.S., safety precautions are ramping up. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resumed publishing its weekly scientific report Thursday after an unprecedented pause, but information about the bird flu virus that was supposed to ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The CDC briefly posted and then removed data indicating potential transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus from cats to humans. This data, not included in the CDC ...

The CDC estimates there have been at least 24 million illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations and 13,000 deaths from the flu so far this season, which started Oct. 1. Nearly 60 of those who died were ...

“What we need is to shift to a system that tells us what’s happening in the moment,” Nirav Shah, principal deputy director at CDC, told reporters Thursday morning. Both bird flu and most ...