Close to 8% of visits for respiratory illness to outpatient providers, including urgent cares and doctors offices, reported to the CDC this week were people sick with influenza. That is the worst ...

For the first time since 1952, publication of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report was halted. It returned on Feb.

(NEXSTAR) – The flu is spreading far and wide across the U.S. – and influenza A is largely to blame. Of all the flu tests reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since the ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Thursday its recommendation to test hospitalized influenza A patients more quickly and thoroughly to distinguish between ...

Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window The CDC is now calling for subtyping of influenza A viruses in all hospitalized patients -- and on an accelerated ...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are hospitalized with the flu for H5N1 bird flu. Health care workers in ...

Advertisement "Seasonal influenza activity remains elevated and continues to increase across the country" for the week ending Feb. 1, CDC officials said. So far for the flu season, the CDC ...

Flu cases have been surging across the United States, according to the latest estimates of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Friday. There have been at least 24 ...