Delays in CDC analyses of infectious disease threats and agency silence will harm Americans, doctors and ...

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

Here are four more respiratory illness updates: Nearly 1.7% of all deaths nationwide were attributed to flu, compared to approximately 1.5% from COVID-19. Influenza test positivity rose to 31.6%, ...

In early January 2025, a person in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe respiratory symptoms died, marking the first U.S. bird flu death. Health officials said the person was older than 65 ...

State officials are blaming highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), also known as bird flu, for causing the deaths of wild waterfowl in Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton, Starke and Benton counties ...

The worst flu season in years is swamping California, prompting a renewed surge in hospitalizations as officials warn the ...

The local data shows that 467 people were diagnosed with flu at Fredericksburg-area emergency departments and urgent care centers during the week that ended Friday, Jan. 25. That’s up from 197 ...

More than 24 million people have had seasonal flu this season, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

RSV, respiratory syncytial virus, usually peaks in December and January while infecting the nose, throat and lungs, usually ...

There have been a total of 67 confirmed cases of bird flu in humans in the United States since 2024, according to the Center for Disease Control. One death was also associated with the virus.