Flu vaccines offer protection from a handful of strains that scientists expect will dominate the season.

The peak of the flu season awaits us and may bring many severe cases and hospitalizations due to a new, menacing variant.

The 2024-2025 influenza season saw high severity, with 56 million symptomatic cases and 770,000 hospitalizations, mainly affecting older adults. Older adults accounted for 77% of hospitalizations, ...

As families gather for Thanksgiving, here's what to know to protect your family from the new subclade K flu strain.

U.S. flu rates remain low, but experts are keeping an eye on a new strain that’s been linked to unexpectedly early and severe ...

As people start to travel for Thanksgiving, illnesses may start to spread, including RSV. The CDC tracks what is happening nationally and says RSV in many southern and southeastern states is ...

While flu levels are still low, a strain that's wreaked havoc in the U.K. and Canada is behind most cases so far in the U.S., ...

The first person to contract H5N5 avian influenza, a rare strain of the disease known as bird flu, died in Washington state ...

A new and potentially more severe variant of the flu, known as H3N2 subclade K, has reached the United States, prompting ...