Trump's pick for health secretary has a record of attacking vaccines. In fact he's even taken direct aim at bird flu shots.

The flu vaccine is generally about 40% effective at completely preventing influenza, according to Blumberg. The flu vaccine ...

It's not too late to get a shot for influenza or COVID-19, both of which are expected to increase in the coming weeks.

An infectious disease expert says the relatively mild cases of avian influenza detected so far among dairy workers don’t ...

There have been 66 confirmed bird flu infections reported in the U.S. since the start of 2024, although most cases have been mild. It took over a year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic before ...

When children receive their measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, they gain protection against all three viruses for all or most of their lives. Yet the effectiveness of an influenza vaccine given ...

Kennedy raised the suspicion in June that bird flu might have been engineered in a laboratory, citing the financial windfall of the pharmaceutical industry from vaccine production. Human and ...

Experts say there are about 400,000 vaccines in the federal vaccine stockpile in case there is evidence of transmission between humans. Schiff’s swearing-in sets record in U.S. Senate A ...

"It is also important for everyone to get the seasonal flu vaccine, which can help prevent severe seasonal flu illness and lower the risk of getting both seasonal and bird flu infections at the ...

The public is also encouraged to get the seasonal flu vaccine - while this won't protect against bird flu viruses, it does reduce the risk of seasonal flu, which combined with bird flu can lead to ...

but residents were confirmed as having taken the flu vaccine to combat it. PHS noted only "a small number of deaths" had been reported among care homes. For intensive care units, the flu had ...