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

Influenza is high across the country and Kentucky is among the states affected. Here's what we know about how long flu lasts, medicines, shots and more.

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 ...

The first influenza vaccine was a monovalent live-attenuated vaccine, which was used in Russia until recently. In 1940, a second strain of influenza virus was isolated; this was named influenza B ...

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 ...

The spread of the bird flu among humans and other mammals in the United States has sparked some concern among public health experts in recent weeks, though U.S. officials say the risk it currently ...