The CDC reportedly was blindsided by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement earlier this week ending COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women. (Washington Post) A federal judge ordered an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center to release a Russian researcher employed by Harvard University for failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the country.

His Indiana mom said her son was immunocompromised and came into contact with an unvaccinated child at his school.

Fatalities among children were high again for a second year in Florida, while national numbers were the highest since the swine flu pandemic during the 2009-10 season.

Over the past three years, avian influenza (H5N1) has spread around the U.S. and affected many species of birds and mammals, including humans. Experts at a recent webinar offered answers to common questions about the disease — how it spreads,

Health officials are making a renewed call for vigilance against bird flu, but some experts are puzzling over why reports of new human cases have stopped.

The bird flu virus remains a wild card that continues to threaten U.S. poultry and egg supplies while upping the ante with risk to human health.