The CDC was instrumental in eradicating smallpox, identifying the causes of HIV and encouraging Americans to get the COVID-19 ...

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 ...

Experts say this is the worst flu season in the U.S. in more than a decade and cases are still trending up. Flu infections ...

CDC holds that vaccines are a safe, effective way to protect your health and prevent the spread of flu, COVID, measles. What ...

Former CDC Director Tom Frieden warns that cutting the Public Health Associate Program and Laboratory Leadership Service ...

The CDC’s incoming head, former Congressman Dave Weldon, a physician, has been commissioned by Trump to “ focus on the ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order withholding funding from schools and universities that require stude ...

Nationally, the test positivity rate for the week ending on February 8, was 4.8 percent, according to the CDC's most recent update on its COVID Data Tracker.

Influenza is overtaking Covid-19 as the deadlier virus in the US this winter — the first time in five years the seasonal ...

Around the world five years ago, alarms began ringing about a new coronavirus that scientists named SARS-CoV-2.

Seasonal flu cases in the United States have reached their highest level in over a decade with even influenza-related deaths ...

Eileen Yam and Giancarlo Pasquini contributed to this chapter. Five years after the pandemic began, Americans largely see ...