Close to 8% of visits for respiratory illness to outpatient providers, including urgent cares and doctors offices, reported to the CDC this week were people sick with influenza. That is the worst ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years.

Flu cases have been surging across the United States, according to the latest estimates of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Friday. There have been at least 24 ...

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 ...

(NEXSTAR) – The flu is spreading far and wide across the U.S. – and influenza A is largely to blame. Of all the flu tests reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since the ...

Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., who served as director of the CDC in President Obama’s Administration ... potentially getting infected with avian influenza from their human owners.

In a breakthrough for influenza research, scientists have discovered immune cells that can recognize influenza (flu) viruses ...

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 ...

Advertisement "Seasonal influenza activity remains elevated and continues to increase across the country" for the week ending Feb. 1, CDC officials said. So far for the flu season, the CDC ...

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 ... "With [influenza-like illness] rates ...