A new influenza strain, H3N2, is causing record-breaking hospitalization and infection rates. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of reported cases nearly ...

The flu is one of the most common and contagious diseases — it causes up to 41 million illnesses, 710,000 hospitalizations and 52,000 deaths each year in the US, according to the Centers for Disease ...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone six months and older receive an annual flu shot. The C.D.C. also recommends that most people get flu shots in September or ...

Summer isn’t officially over just yet, but respiratory viruses are already beginning to ramp up in the United States.

The flu epidemic is stabilizing. The positivity rate and other benchmarks for the week ending on Jan. 10 have decreased compared with the previous week, according to the latest data from the Centers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new influenza strain, H3N2, is causing record-breaking hospitalization and infection rates. According to the Center for Disease ...