The CDC has issued interim effectiveness estimates for the 2024-2025 seasonal influenza and 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines.

Weekly numbers show that 2% of U.S. deaths for week 5 were due to the flu. COVID was responsible for 1.5% of deaths in the ...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued recommendations for the composition of influenza shots for the upcoming ...

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

During the 2010-2011 to 2024-2025 influenza seasons, 9% of pediatric influenza-associated deaths have had IAE.

Here are four more updates: Influenza activity remained elevated but has been declining for four consecutive weeks. Flu-related emergency department visits remain moderate, and test positivity is at ...

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Zoetis received conditional USDA approval for an avian flu vaccine. Major poultry and dairy ... USDA worked closely with the FDA on lab testing and with the CDC on public health matters.

Mar. 7, 2025 — Recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (also known as bird flu) have created a need for rapid and sensitive detection methods to mitigate its spread. Now ...

The authors are grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-CCMB), India, for encouragement and support for this work. NIH Awards (R37DA025576; R01MH085259) also support SK ...

The CDC reports the weekly flu virus in Virginia has dropped from the very high category to the high category. It also shows that 17.1 of emergency department visits were for respiratory illnesses.