U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers meet next week, but their agenda suggests they’ll skip ...

A newly posted agenda for next week’s meeting of the just-appointed group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for ...

The flu vaccination rate for U.S. children has plummeted ... The season has not only been hard on children. CDC officials have described it as “ highly severe,” and estimate that so far ...

The CDC recommends everyone ages 6 months and older get a yearly flu vaccine, but flu vaccination rate for U.S. children has fallen from about 64% five years ago to 49% this season. "Unfortunately ...

The 2024-25 influenza vaccine reduced the risk for influenza-associated outpatient visits and hospitalization, the CDC’s findings said — despite weeks of a previously reported surge in flu cases.

Many of the flu viruses that the CDC has tested this season were "well-recognized" by antibodies targeted to the vaccine, which helps the body fight off the infection, the agency reported this month.

While the basic information about flu vaccination remains on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, information campaigns that promoted flu vaccination to the general public ...

“No, the CDC was not told to take down the flu vaccination campaign webpage,” Health and Human Services said in a statement, according to the tech news site arstechnica.com The CDC ...

The campaign sought to "reset public expectations around what a flu vaccine can do in the event that it does not entirely prevent illness," according to the CDC's webpage describing the launch of ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pulled back a public health campaign promoting the flu vaccine as cases of ... for communications in the CDC’s Influenza Division, told the trade ...

A popular awareness campaign now in its second year that encouraged people to get flu vaccines to reduce their risk of severe infection has been halted at the CDC, NPR reports. The “Wild to Mild ...

Requests for comment to the CDC and HHS were not immediately returned. The campaign sought to "reset public expectations around what a flu vaccine can do in the event that it does not entirely ...