IDPH’s funding for infectious disease prevention will see a “debilitating impact,” Director Sameer Vohra said in a statement.

Despite variations by age group and influenza virus type, the 2023-2024 influenza vaccine was protective against outpatient illness in pediatric and adult patients.

Recommendations on the strain composition of influenza virus vaccines for the 2025-2026 US season have been issued by FDA.

The (CDPH) is reminding individuals 65 and older to stay current on their COVID-19 vaccinations, which means receiving a ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...

That meeting has not been rescheduled. In another case, a canceled public meeting of vaccine advisers who make recommendations on the flu vaccine every year for the FDA also has not been given a new ...

as well as the threat of bird flu. Weldon is the first Trump nominee withdrawn from consideration. The Republican-majority Senate confirmed unconventional picks including anti-vaccine activist ...

Implementing the Improving Vaccination Model has the potential to significantly increase influenza vaccination ... Care held March 10 to 13, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois. Children with chronic ...

Bird flu vaccination programs can sometimes trigger export bans, on concern that vaccinated birds not showing signs of infection could pose risks to healthy birds in the export countries.

MariKate and Marty Thomas lost 3,000 chickens to the bird flu, then a $200,000 grant due to the federal funding freeze. Provided Share A family-run farm in south suburban Matteson learned it was ...

Children and their parents were not able to pick the needle-free nasal spray vaccine this year. Antonio Perez Chicago Tribune/TNS The state is experiencing an unusually high number of influenza ...

The lawmakers said broiler producers are the “least affected” by bird flu, losing only about 8% of their birds, but would suffer the greatest losses with a vaccine. The U.S. economy would take ...