The new US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to halt its publicity campaign encouraging uptake of this year’s seasonal flu vaccine ...

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For the first time, bird flu has been detected in rats, the United States Department of Agriculture confirmed.

Under executive orders, the public health agency was banned from communicating from WHO as the US started its withdrawal from ...

With at least 33 million cases, 430,000 hospitalizations, and 19,000 deaths, this year's flu season is proving severe. CBS ...

Lab tests suggest a strain of the flu virus circulating this season may not be "well-recognized" by the flu vaccine.

The World Health Organization said that at least 53 people have been killed by the outbreaks that started last month in the ...

Bird flu continues to make headlines while farmers across the United States grapple with cases in their flock and cattle, and one person died from a case of severe bird flu in January. While there is ...

CDC Urged to Release Bird Flu Data as Trump Slashes Key Staff Combatting Outbreak, Center for Biological Diversity Reports ...

San Luis Obispo County is dealing with its worst flu season in years, according to public health officials. County data from ...

Avian influenza poses a low risk to humans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, but officials in Pennsylvania are not taking chances as cases appear in other states.