A new slate of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to recommend that ...

CDC advisory committee recommends thimerosal-free influenza vaccines for all adults and children, despite claims that the ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has issued new vaccine recommendations affecting RSV and flu ...

A CDC advisory has recommended to ban the use of thimerosal in flu shots despite no evidence that it causes any harm.

Last March, the CDC concluded that last season's "influenza vaccination did not significantly reduce the risk of outpatient medically attended illness" against the predominant strain of viruses.

The CDC says that most states are at "high" or "very high" levels of influenza activity, though some states may have now reached their peak. As of Feb. 6, 2025, most states have "high" or "very ...

The CDC is now calling for subtyping of influenza A viruses in all hospitalized patients -- and on an accelerated timeline, ideally within 24 hours. Nirav Shah, MD, JD, principal deputy director ...

According to additional data, 2% of the deaths in the U.S. for the week ending in Feb. 1 were due to influenza, or the flu.That same week, 1.5% of deaths in the nation were due to COVID. The ...

The most recent CDC Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report shows that 7.8% of visits to a healthcare provider were for respiratory illness, the worst since the swine flu pandemic in late 2009.

Partial CDC data suggest that influenza deaths may have already reached as high as 2% of deaths for the week ending on Feb. 1, also surpassing COVID-19 mortality nationwide which was holding at ...

As many as 646,000 people may die from influenza each year worldwide, ... CDC says more people die of influenza worldwide than some experts have estimated Health. Dec 13, 2017 6:33 PM EDT ...

The claim: CDC test adds influenza cases to COVID-19 tally. As the delta variant surges across the country, social media users are reviving old claims that question the reliability of the COVID-19 ...