While pertussis — known as whooping cough — numbers have been spiking nationally, the South Dakota Department of Health ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now working with California on a project that is offering gift cards to ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Under direction of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC is considering changes to its recommendations on vaccines ...

This was also the first year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that deaths from flu surpassed deaths from COVID.

President Donald Trump's newly formed CDC is considering a shakeup to the ... the vaccine schedules for other diseases for the 2025 season. The meeting was controversially delayed for the ...

This year's flu season has become the state's deadliest in nearly a decade, with at least 388 deaths so far. Meanwhile, flu ...

The US Centers and Disease Control and Prevention is considering recommending annual Covid-19 shots to those who are older or who have compromised immune function, rather than the current blanket ...

the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called the winter of 2024-2025 a "high severity" season with the highest hospitalization rate in 15 years. Since early 2024, a different kind of flu ...

Under a risk-based recommendation, the CDC would continue to recommend two doses of Covid-19 vaccines each year for older adults — those over 65 — and to anyone with weakened immune function.