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%, ...

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

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 ...

Flu deaths have surpassed COVID-19 in California for the first time since the pandemic, with concerns over low vaccination rates and a likely severe flu season.

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 ...

Doctor visits for flu symptoms are at a 15-year high. Why is this flu season so bad? Doctors discuss flu trends, symptoms and ...

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 ...