The CDC has classified this flu season as one of high severity across all age groups, the first such classification since ...

The rate of Americans visiting doctors’ offices for flu-like illness is continuing to reach record levels, new CDC data ...

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

Advice from the head of the Infectious Diseases Society of America: Get a shot and don't censor government data.

The US is in the throes an unusually intense and severe flu season, with hospitalization rates topping the levels seen with ...

By some measures, this year’s flu season is the worst in 15 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ...

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 ...

Doctor visits for flu symptoms are at a 15-year high. Why is this flu season so bad? Doctors discuss flu trends, symptoms and ...

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 ...

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

To reduce the odds of catching the flu and colds, experts say consider tried-and-true prevention methods like hand washing and mask wearing.

Influenza cases continue to mount with the virus reaching activity levels in the U.S. not seen for the last 15 years, according to the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention.