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 ...

Low vaccination rates may also be contributing to this year’s sick season. As of late January, U.S. vaccine uptake was well ...

United States, with 43 states reporting high or very high outpatient respiratory illness activity, according to FluView, a ...

Public health officials say we are in the middle of the worst flu season in the US in In 15 years. The CDC reports that at ...

The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years, according to a report from The Associated Press. One indicator of flu activity is the percentage of ...

There’s a new term to describe the rise of respiratory illnesses this season: “quad-demic.” The “quad” in quad-demic refers ...

Officials say this particular strain of the flu is both contagious and strong.

The city's wastewater is tested at the Metropolitan Sewer District's five water treatment plants around the city.

Ask any elementary school staffer about the level of sickness circulating among students, and you’ll likely get this unequivocal answer: off the charts. You need not be a pediatrician to realize ...

Scientists are calling on the US CDC to disclose data about the risks of bird flu to people and pets that was posted briefly online and quickly deleted.

COLUMBUS, Ohio)—The Ohio Department of Health is reporting the state’s first probable human case of influenza A (H5), also ...