Emergency room visits with influenza are now "very high" nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday, in this week's update on the winter respiratory virus season. This season's wave of flu cases is arriving later than it has in the past two years.

Flu is taking off in the U.S., with 40 states reporting high or very high levels of flu-like illness last week.

The CDC has revealed the red flags it is monitoring for that suggest that bird flu was about to become the world's next pandemic.

Tularemia cases in the U.S. rose by 56% from 2011 to 2022, with central states and American Indian communities most affected, highlighting diagnostic advancements and health disparities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is keeping close eye on pandemic indicators amid bird flu cases arising in the United States.

Respiratory illness activity is currently considered "high" in the United States, according to the CDC. In one state, it is at a "very high" level.

Ohio advocates are looking to a new year that will include fighting for contraceptive access protections on a federal and state level as recent CDC data shows the amount of Americans using birth control methods.

The CDC inspects hundreds of cruise ship yearly. Some cruise lines and cruise parent companies score better than others.

Hand sanitizer isn't as effective as handwashing at preventing the spread of norovirus, doctors and the CDC warn.

The FDA has issued an urgent recall for shellstock oysters harvested last month in Washington state's Hammersley Inlet.