COVID-19 cases rise in North Texas as FDA authorizes updated vaccine The XBB 1.5 variant is one of the most dominant variants we're seeing locally. Sep 11, 2023 FDA approves new drug to prevent RSV in children Fall flu and virus season is right around the corner, but this year, a new...
The CDC is warning of an overall "high level" of respiratory illness in the U.S., with COVID, the flu, RSV and norovirus all going around. Pediatrician Dr. Dylan Hes joined CBS News to talk about it. Jan 27 03:12 Where does RFK Jr.'s nomination stand? Health and Human Servic...
“This decision comes at a time when COVID-19 cases are once again climbing. Now, most people 6 months or older in the U.S. are eligible to receive this season’s COVID-19 vaccine, even if they have never been vaccinated against COVID-19 before,”Albert Bourla, Pfizer Chairman and C...
It comes as cases of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, continue rising. The viruses typically spread during winter, but experts have said the surges are occurring earlier than usual. A person gets an influenza vaccine from a pharmacist dur...
Alaska is the only state that is currently experiencing moderate respiratory illness activity. Influenza typically circulates this time of year and peaks between December and February for most of the U.S., according to the CDC. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) ...
They teach your immune system how to fight germs -- without an actual infection. That's because in most cases, you're given a weaker or inactive version of a virus or bacteria, or an important part of it. When your immune system sees these germs, it learns to fight them and keep you...
exposed to that disease for which the vaccine is designed to protect that child. Some diseases do need multiple doses of a given vaccine. Some just need the one. And in all these cases, I think emphasizing the power here, emphasizing the benefit for the child. And if yo...
This season's wave of flu cases isarriving laterthan it has in the past two years. After the COVID-19 pandemic, annual waves of influenza during the colder months increased weeks earlier than they had during many pre-pandemic seasons. ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning physicians that cases of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, are rising in the South, and that the regional increase may portend increases in the rest of the U.S. over the next two to three
Mycoplasma pneumonia is the latest entryona growing list of lung infections keeping doctors on their toes this fall. Whooping cough, or pertussis, cases – which also cause a prolonged cough – arefive times higherthan they were at this time last year, and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV,...