The CDC ends its emergency response to H5N1 bird flu after recording 70 human cases and one death nationally, even as experts ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has ended its emergency response to the H5N1 avian flu. A spokesperson ...

New guidance from the CDC recommends that everyone over six months old who does not have an allergy to a component of the vaccine receive a flu shot in the coming months.

Summer is soon coming to an end, and health officials are planning ahead for flu season. On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made its annual flu shot recommendations for ...

So far this fall, the CDC estimates at least 780,000 flu illnesses, at least 8,000 hospitalizations and at least 490 flu-related deaths — including at least one child.

The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and the CDC are urging people to get flu shots. Both groups say the flu is likely to come back after a two-year hiatus, and it could be a bad year.

The CDC does not recommend any particular flu vaccine for people younger than age 65. It does have preferential vaccines for those ages 65 and older, and that’s new guidance this year.

For the first time this flu season, overall levels of the respiratory illness have reached "very high" activity despite a decrease in COVID-19 infections in recent months, according to the CDC ...

The CDC says on its website: "Flu can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. Flu symptoms usually come on suddenly.

CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years. Flu shot less effective this season for some kids, CDC report suggests. FDA cancels meeting to update next season's flu vaccines.

Over 160,000 people this season have landed in the hospital from flu complications, CDC estimates. More than 6,600 have died. Here's the symptoms.