This season's wave of flu cases is arriving later than it has in the past two years. After the COVID-19 pandemic, annual waves of influenza during the colder months increased weeks earlier than ...

Avian flu or bird flu was detected in wastewater in Phoenix, Surprise and Tempe, the Maricopa County Department of Public Health confirmed on Monday. All three of the cities conduct wastewater ...

The flu is surging in New York and across the US — and claimed the lives of five kids in the days before Christmas. Positive tests climbed a whopping 12% for the week ending Dec. 21, according ...

Fewer children in the U.S. have gotten a flu vaccine in 2024 compared to last year, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As of Nov. 30, about 36 percent ...

A highly infectious type of bird flu began spreading in dairy cows across the US earlier this year, providing the pathogen with one of its best opportunities to date to evolve and more easily ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an emergency proclamation on Wednesday in response to growing concerns over bird flu cases in the state and across the country. The State of Emergency ...

Stanford University researchers have developed a way to make the seasonal flu vaccine stronger against more strains, potentially including those that cause bird flu, the university said this month.

There’s been an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows since March 2024. The pasteurization process ensures that milk is safe to drink by killing the virus. However, raw milk may still ...

On a map of flu activity across the U.S., Louisiana glows a bright red, the only state where flu rates are considered “high,” making it a hotbed for the dreaded wintertime virus. At the same ...

It's cold and flu season. How much respiratory illness is circulating right now? Texas' Department of State Health Services has a Respiratory Illness Interactive Dashboard that tracks the ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Wednesday to combat bird flu, which has spread to more than a quarter of all the state's dairies in the last month and infected 34 state ...