Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary—a key victory for one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet picks, after some GOP lawmakers remained on-the-fence due to Kennedy’s ...

Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation.

Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving ...

Kennedy Jr. is revising his ethics agreement to divest his interest in litigation against an HPV vaccine maker and directing ...

U.S. senators will soon determine whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be the nation’s next health secretary. If the environmental attorney from California takes the reins of the U.S. Department of ...

Patients hospitalized with flu should be tested for H5N1 bird flu within 24 hours, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, upgrading its recent recommendation. Before now ...

principal deputy director at CDC said it's important to accelerate the identification of influenza A virus subtyping so that the results are not just useful for retrospective surveillance ...

The CDC last week said it would rebuild a bird flu vaccine stockpile for poultry. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services, which encompasses CDC, have repeatedly met with the ...

The CDC recommends several measures to curb the spread of bird flu: Avoid direct contact with wild birds and other animals infected with or suspected to be infected with avian influenza A viruses.

The CDC reports the virus was detected on Dec ... “The biggest concern is if the avian influenza virus, were to mix with a human virus and thus make it easier to not only infect humans but ...

Wastewater levels of influenza are high nationwide for the week ending Jan 4, the CDC's wastewater monitoring systems reported. Respiratory viruses can spread quickly in winter months, as more ...