The current flu season is shaping up to be the worst in a decade. So far, there have been at least 29 million illnesses and 370,000 hospitalizations related to the flu -- the most since the 2015-2016 season,

In a report published earlier this year, the CDC says there have been rare instances over the last decade where bird flu viruses have spread from mammals to people. Examples inclu

Investigators suspect nutritional shakes manufactured by a Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. facility in Fort Wayne are responsible for a listeria outbreak that has killed 12.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease detectives" — feared the impact of job cuts.

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a rise in severe and even deadly flu cases. Officials are now saying that it is the worst flu season in years. NBC’s Maggie Vespa reports for Saturday TODAY.

Flu activity remains "elevated" in the United States but is starting to show signs of abating, according to new federal data published Friday. The 2024-25 flu season was classified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a "high" severity season overall and for all age groups,

A day after the first human case of the bird flu had been reported in Ohio, a new study from the CDC has been released on the topic, suggesting that some people didn’t even know they had a bird flu infection.

There are 70 confirmed cases of the bird flu among humans in the U.S., as of Tuesday. The CDC said the current public health risk is low.

Nearly 70 people in the U.S. have been reported infected with bird flu in the last year, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, though researchers and studies suggest that's likely an undercount.

Delays in CDC analyses of infectious disease threats and agency silence will harm Americans, doctors and public health experts warn

It's not just a spike but a "high severity" of flu cases nationwide for the first time in several years, according to the CDC. At Union Pharmacy it's driving people to come for th

After a different strain of bird flu was recently found in cattle for the first time, experts reveal what this means in our fight against the virus.