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The flu vaccine "may not be perfect but it’s the best prevention that we have," Dr. Daniel Jernigan, the director of the influenza unit at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, influenza trackers would begin reading tea leaves around this time of the year. After a couple years of low #flu transmission, they are starting to do this again.
A flu season that hit the United States early and hard is showing the first signs of slowing in parts of the country. For the first time this season, flu hospitalizations have dropped ...
Influenza virus detections are rising in the U.S., according to health officials. In a weekly influenza surveillance report ending on Dec. 4, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
The CDC Vital Signs report released Tuesday finds that Black, AI/AN and Hispanic adults were 1.2 to 1.8 times more likely to be hospitalized than White adults over the past 13 flu seasons.