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.

In December alone, the CDC reported five separate outbreaks on four different ships — sickening more than 800 people. All of the outbreaks were caused by the highly contagious norovirus.

Investigators detailed an outbreak of blastomycosis -- characterized by cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, and fever or chills -- that occurred among workers at a paper mill in Delta County, Michigan, from November 2022 to May 2023. Among the 645 workers studied, 162 received a blastomycosis diagnosis, of whom 12% were hospitalized, and one died.

The CDC reported more than double the cases of norovirus, commonly known as stomach flu, compared to previous years in early December.

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, responds to former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx’s warning that US agencies “are making the same mistakes they made with Covid.

Cruise ships saw the highest number of stomach bug illnesses since 2012 with 16 outbreaks that impacted 1,894 passengers.

He called on the NIH and the CDC to drive targeted research and data-collection efforts. But the Biden administration has missed a critical opportunity to illuminate how abortion bans are interfering with maternal healthcare, leading to deaths and ...

There’s a new health warning about respiratory illnesses. The CDC is reporting that cases of the cold, flu, COVID and RSV are on the rise.

Noroviruses, also known as food poisoning or the stomach bug, are “ common and highly contagious ,” according to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. About 1 in 15 people across the U.S. get the virus annually, experts said.

But the Biden administration has missed a critical opportunity to illuminate how abortion bans are interfering with maternal health care, leading to deaths and irreversible injuries: The CDC has not pushed state committees that review maternal deaths to examine the role these new laws have played.