Wash your hands, avoid sharing food, and wear a mask—there are many recommendations for staying healthy during cold and flu ...

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 ...

This year’s flu season has reached a new milestone, according to preliminary data released by the Centers for Disease Control ...

Bird flu isn’t new. What makes this outbreak so concerning?, According to the CDC, H5N1 was first identified in geese in China in 1996. While the virus primarily spread among ...

A new report suggests that more Americans may be walking around with bird flu − and not even know it. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention randomly tested 150 veterinarians ...

California hospitals are struggling to keep up with the influx of flu cases. Meanwhile, it is unclear whether the United States will take part in an international flu vaccine meeting later this month.

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 ...

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

There are some new tools to help this respiratory virus season: over-the-counter tests that can identify whether an illness is COVID-19 or influenza.

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