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The Trump administration has not staffed an office established by Congress to prepare the nation for future pandemics, according to three sources familiar with the situation. The White House Office of ...

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Local public health officials are the front line for responding to any disease outbreak. Five years after the coronavirus pandemic began, many say that the entrenched politicization of COVID-19 has ...

The U.S. FDA issues flu vaccine strain recommendations for 2025-2026 on its own without advisory input. Read more here.

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday issued recommendations for the composition of influenza shots for the upcoming respiratory virus season, but without input from its independent vaccine ...

California has been grappling with an unusually severe flu season. Hospitalizations statewide spiked with some doctors calling 2025 "The Year of Flu." But what are we seeing right now here in the ...

The state’s 2024-2025 influenza season is the worst since Oregon Health Authority began tracking the virus 15 years ago, with ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

Avian flu is claiming the lives of iconic San Francisco Bay wildfowl, and the Trump administration can hardly be trusted to ...

With bird flu decimating chicken populations, New York City has placed bird flu warning signs near bodies of water in public ...

FIVE ON YOUR HEALTH TONIGHT, A SEVERE FLU SEASON IN THE US AND WHAT’S MAKING IT WORSE RIGHT NOW. WELL, JOINING US IS DOCTOR SCOTT HADLAND, CHIEF OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE AT MASS GENERAL FOR CHILDREN.