The preservative is called Thimerosal, and it's included in just 4% of existing flu vaccines, used to help prevent ...

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 ...

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 nation, the numbers show.

Doctor fears "vaccine hesitancy" is contributing to worst flu season in 15 years 04:14. Levels of influenza nationwide are now at the highest they have been since the peak of the 2009 swine flu ...

A supposed headline about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) killing cats in response to the bird flu outbreak is fabricated. There is no evidence that the CDC has plans to cull ...

The CDC's latest estimate slightly increased the risk the H5N1 bird flu virus could trigger a pandemic — but the agency still says the risk to the general public is low.

Flu deaths outpace COVID deaths in 22 states for first time since pandemic began 01:31. For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, more people in the U.S. died of influenza than from ...

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 worst flu season the United States has had in more than a decade may have reached its ... 480,000 hospitalizations and 21,000 deaths from flu so far this season, according to CDC estimates, ...

The CDC estimates there have been at least 29 million illnesses, 370,000 hospitalizations and 16,000 deaths from flu so far this season At least 68 pediatric flu deaths have been reported so far ...

The CDC's updated recommendations are based, in part, on the study of 115 dairy workers in Colorado and Michigan. Blood tests found eight workers had been infected with bird flu, but only four of ...