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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Partial CDC data suggest that influenza deaths may have already reached as high as 2% of deaths for the week ending on Feb. 1 ...

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

The report is the latest evidence that the outbreak in dairy herds is spreading undetected in cows, and the spillover into ...

Millions of people fall ill with the flu every year, and adults age 65 and older are at higher risk of developing serious ...

What you need to know about bird flu. Public health experts are closely watching avian influenza, which has affected chickens ...

Outpatient health care visits for flu-like illnesses are at their highest levels in 15 years, according to data updated ...

Bird flu has now spread to humans in a dozen states after public health officials confirmed an Ohio man had contracted the ...

Perhaps the most notable is the so-called “Spanish flu” of 1918–1919, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates “an avian-like H1N1 virus” killed 50 million ...