Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told USA TODAY he stopped taking annual flu shots because of ...

A particularly infectious subvariant of influenza is keeping emergency room numbers high and causing especially severe ...

California officials warn of an increase in flu-related hospitalizations and confirm a second severe-flu-related death.

A ferocious surge of flu cases is linked in part to a variant that has not been dominant in the past few years — resulting in ...

A future ASF vaccination program must be accompanied by an accurate way to distinguish vaccinated animals from those ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has slashed childhood vaccine recommendations in the ...

Lower egg prices have subdued public discussion about bird flu. But the virus is expected to devastate farms this winter.

Flu cases are rising rapidly across the D.C. region, and doctors say the worst of the season may still be ahead. Health experts report a sharp increase in hospitalizations driven by an aggressive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Influenza is spreading rapidly across the United States this respiratory virus season, but the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Jan. 3 (UPI) --Influenza has caused 3,100 deaths and 81,000 hospitalizations among 7.5 million flu cases so far this respiratory disease season the number of cases reported in the United States ...

At the end of December, New York saw one of its worst single weeks for flu hospitalizations in years, while states like Connecticut have seen a similar surge. In Massachusetts, the latest numbers show ...

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