A federal vaccine advisory panel voted this week to recommend significant updates to the nation’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza vaccination policies, signaling a new direction ...

Why the CDC is warning that this flu season is on track to be one of the worst in a decade 03:26. This season's influenza vaccine may have been a poor match to a strain of the flu virus that ...

Doctor fears "vaccine hesitancy" is contributing to worst flu season in 15 years 04:14. Levels of influenza nationwide are now at the highest they have been since the peak of the 2009 swine flu ...

According to additional data, 2% of the deaths in the U.S. for the week ending in Feb. 1 were due to influenza, or the flu.That same week, 1.5% of deaths in the nation were due to COVID. The ...

Two types of influenza viruses are responsible for seasonal flu outbreaks: Influenza A and B. Influenza A accounts for around 75 percent of all cases and tends to cause more severe illness in adults.

Flu vaccine effectiveness in South America was 35% against hospitalization. ... A CDC spokesperson said that the effectiveness of the vaccine for H1N1 was "within the range" of previous seasons.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pulled back a public health campaign promoting the flu vaccine as cases of the ...

Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign. Updated February 20, 2025 2:28 PM ET Originally published February 19, 2025 6:39 PM ET. By . Will Stone ...

The CDC explained that while this year’s VE is lower than it was in 2023, it’s still in historical range to effectively protect against influenza A; past data has shown that the flu shot ...

September and October remain the best times for most people to get their flu vaccine, according to the CDC. For most people, it's not recommended to get a flu vaccination in July or August.

This season's influenza vaccine may have been a poor match to a strain of the flu virus that caused many infections this winter, early data released by the Centers for Disease Control and ...