The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Modern to develop an ...

The CDC recommends that everyone ages 6 months and older get an annual flu vaccine. As of April 19, just 49 percent of children had received one, lower than last season at the same time ...

“These results support current CDC recommendations for 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccination.” As for the influenza vaccine, interim estimates showed VE against influenza-associated acute ...

Preliminary data for 2024 to 2025, recorded by the CDC, reveals that 13% of pediatric deaths had influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis. HealthDay News — During the 2010-2011 to ...

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.

The worst flu season the United States has had in more than a decade may have reached its peak, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data published by the agency on ...

This season's influenza vaccine may have been a poor match to a strain of the flu virus that caused many infections this winter, early data released by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Unconfirmed reports suggest that a popular flu vaccine educational campaign has come to an end. NPR reports that it has spoken with two anonymous sources at the CDC who claim that the agency has been ...

“The laboratory services that support them doing diagnostics has been gutted. The influenza division at CDC, which tracks seasonal flu, has been gutted. The website has been profoundly altered ...

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 ...