As often is the case in flu seasons, the age group hardest hit this year are children ages 0 to 4. The CDC recorded 16 ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — Stitching together four molecules found in the standard flu vaccine ensures an immune response to all of them, scientists have ... Flu Virus Remains Infectious in Refrigerated ...

So far, 67 human bird flu cases have been confirmed in the U.S., the CDC says. A child in San Francisco was recently confirmed to be the third human case of bird flu in the United States in which ...

Amid an escalating bird flu outbreak spreading in the United States, federal health officials have begun to brief members of the incoming Trump administration about how they’ve responded to the ...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are hospitalized with the flu for H5N1 bird flu. Health care workers in ...

At the height of annual flu season, U.S. health officials on Thursday said clinicians should more quickly ensure people who are ill don't have bird flu. While the risk to the general public ...

Flu season is here in California, but other illnesses are also in the Golden State. Influenza cases increased during holiday gatherings and travels and have continued to rise since. In the week ...

In the current flu season, there have been 14,443 lab-confirmed tests reported. This week 445 influenza-associated hospitalizations were reported by 71hospitals. The cumulative hospitalization ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The CDC has confirmed the positive bird flu case in a child in San Francisco. City health officials first reported on a presumptive case in a child on Jan. 10 and continue ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Thursday urging health-care workers treating patients hospitalized with the flu to perform an additional test for bird flu within ...

After at least 66 documented cases of humans infected with bird flu – which is surely an undercount — the first death was just reported. A 65-year old man with additional medical issues had been ...

These viruses are independent of the current rise in cases of bird flu, which caused the Jan. 6 death of a Louisiana man. Here’s what to know about the diseases currently spreading in the U.S ...