Dave Weldon is a critic of the FDA, CDC and vaccines. Many wonder if he’s the best choice to lead the CDC amid measles, flu ...

Not long after the first flu shot was introduced in 1945 by University of Michigan virologist Thomas Francis and his ...

The possibility of a link between vaccines and autism has been repeatedly debunked by hundreds of scientific studies.

and 13,000 deaths so far this influenza season. "CDC recommends that everyone ages 6 months and older get an annual influenza vaccine," according to a statement from the agency. "There are ...

One myth is that getting the vaccine will cause the flu. “It is impossible to get the flu from the flu shot,” said Wu. For Mark Semmelrock, the vaccine saved his life. “I am immunosuppressed and so I ...

This flu season is a "high-severity" season for all age groups. An estimated 33 million people have suffered from the flu so far this season. In Florida, like the rest of the U.S., the predominant ...

The CDC's ad campaign on the flu vaccine is being halted in the middle of peak flu season. The move came during Robert F.

While the basic information about flu vaccination remains on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website ... the benefits of the flu vaccine, including the potential for less ...

Unconfirmed reports suggest that a popular flu vaccine educational campaign has come to an end. NPR reports that it has spoken with two anonymous sources at the CDC who claim that the agency has been ...

Two U.S. government agencies that are key players in the World Health Organization-led process to select the flu viruses for next winter’s influenza ... to STAT. “CDC will be actively ...

“The laboratory services that support them doing diagnostics has been gutted. The influenza division at CDC, which tracks seasonal flu, has been gutted. The website has been profoundly altered ...

In addition, the administration has begun a widespread purge of the federal public health workforce. As of Feb 19, around 5,200 employees at the CDC and the National Institutes of Health had been let ...