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

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

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 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 ...

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 latest CDC alert says testing for bird flu should move more quickly, ideally within 24 hours of a person’s hospital admission. “The system right now tells us what has already happened.

Seasonal flu activity ... say this is expected to continue for the next few weeks. Many states across the U.S. have been placed in the ‘high’ or ‘very high’ category in the CDC’s Weekly ...

Any patient hospitalized with influenza should be quickly checked for H5N1 bird flu, the Centers for Disease ... influenza patients. CDC officials say they extended the guidance now because ...

The flu can also cause a general feeling of fatigue or malaise, Ray says, as well as gastrointestinal issues like diarrhea ...

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 ...

The CDC continues to say the risk from bird flu remains low for most people. With seasonal flu cases high across the nation, nearly all patients hospitalized with influenza probably have the ...