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 ...

The Centers for Disease Control issued a health alert calling for the immediate testing of patients hospitalized with influenza A to quickly identify avian flu cases. The CDC's new guidance comes ...

The new guidance extends that recommendation to all hospitalized influenza patients. CDC officials say they extended the guidance now because they are seeing more H5N1 patients whose illness they ...

The 2024-25 influenza vaccine reduced the risk for influenza-associated outpatient visits and hospitalization, the CDC’s findings ... impact Walsh treats flu patients in Western Pennsylvania ...

The news was shared with staff during a meeting on Wednesday, according to two CDC staffers who ... More than 50,000 patients were admitted to hospitals for influenza during the week ending ...

Influenza levels in the US are the highest they've been in 15 years amid winter weather and a second wave of the virus.

According to CDC staff ... more than 50,000 patients were hospitalized, she noted. “We have substantial data regarding the safety and efficacy of not only the flu vaccine, but other vaccines ...