Currently, flu levels are high across the country and many states, including Louisiana, are at or near peak levels for the season, according to MakeMyTestCount, a website from the National Institute ...

At the start of 2025, health officials in Louisiana reported the first U.S. bird flu death and experts questioned whether highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) could lead to the next pandemic. A ...

One of the primary reasons influenza is spreading so rapidly in New Jersey and beyond is a mutated variant that was discovered after this season's flu vaccine had already been formulated. The new ...

Over the holidays, U.S. flu cases skyrocketed. Weekly hospitalizations from the virus went from under 7,000 at the start of December to over 33,000 by the last week of 2025, surpassing rates of the ...

Flu is making people miserable from coast to coast, thanks in large part to a new strain called subclade K. That’s why infectious disease experts are telling people to run, not walk, to get this ...

Flu cases are continuing to spike in the United States. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that at least 5,000 people have died of the illness this year and that ...

The CDC reported that 8.2% of outpatient visits to health care providers were for respiratory illness, the highest reported since it started tracking them in 1997. An estimated 11,000,000 illnesses, ...

Massachusetts is experiencing a sharp, unusually fast-moving surge of flu illnesses, with cases and hospitalizations climbing to “very high” levels that are well above what physicians typically expect ...

The CDC estimates there have been at least 11 million illnesses so far. Flu activity could continue to increase in the U.S. over the next few weeks, according to a top flu epidemiologist at the ...

Medical assistant Janet Casamichana gives a flu shot to a child at Dr. Gary M. Kramer’s pediatric office on Sept. 15, 2025, in Coral Gables, Florida. Joe Raedle Getty Images South Florida doctors are ...