A public health expert breaks down the most important public health issues on the agenda for the CDC's vaccine advisory ...

(Refiles to remove extraneous word years from first paragraph) By Puyaan Singh and Mariam Sunny March 4 (Reuters) - U.S.

Contrary to prevailing belief, an evolutionary analysis finds no evidence that most viruses with epidemic or pandemic potential that jumped from animals to people were shaped by selection in a lab or ...

Human metapneumovirus, a little-known respiratory virus, is circulating in Northern California as flu and COVID cases decline.

CDC data show SARS-CoV-2 and RSV continue to impact younger children and older adults, with significant hospitalization and mortality rates across the US.

"As these viruses continue to evolve, public health officials watch carefully to see whether new strains will be more easily spread or cause more severe disease, and they are continuously testing to ...

Zoe Wainer says mistakes are inevitable during a pandemic, but Australia handled COVID-19 better than many countries.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been without a permanent director since the removal of Susan Monarez in August. Its recently installed acting director, Jay Bhattacharya, is also ...

The new findings come after the Trump administration in January took the unprecedented step of overhauling the CDC’s routine childhood immunization schedule.

In recent weeks, seasonal influenza activity has been decreasing across the country, and the severity assessment has been downgraded from “elevated” to “moderate.” The CDC estimates that there have ...

A new CDC analysis shows U.S. maternal deaths keep edging down. On Wednesday, the CDC reported 649 mothers died in 2024 during pregnancy or soon after birth. That is down from 669 in 2023.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has defended some of his controversial moves as being part of his effort to restore faith in public health agencies. It doesn’t seem to be ...