So far this season, the CDC estimates, there have been 13,000 flu deaths — including at least 57 children. The flu has forced ...

Dr. Tom Frieden, the CDC director during the Obama administration, said he was pleased to see the journal return but also ...

The strain of bird flu is distinct from what has previously been found in dairy cattle. The finding raises some worrying ...

Cases of the flu continue to rise nationwide and now appear to be higher than they've been in at least three decades, ...

Flu cases had previously peaked this season at the very end of December. At week 52 —ending on December 28—the percentage of ...

You probably remember the swine flu pandemic of 2009, caused by a previously unknown H1N1 virus that contained swine, human, and avian genes. How did that happen? Because bird flu viruses don’t ...

At least four cattle herds in Nevada have tested positive for a strain of H5N1 bird flu never before seen in cows, state ...

Swine Flu' Strain Has Passed from Humans to Swine Nearly 400 Times Since 2009 July 27, 2023 — A new study of the strain of influenza A responsible for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic -- pdm09 -- shows ...

Specifically, the CDC notes that H1N1- and H3N2-related variants, both type A flu strains, are the predominant flu viruses circulating this season. While type B influenza only accounts for a small ...