Emergency room visits with influenza are now "very high" nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday, in this week's update on the winter respiratory virus season.
The bird flu outbreak has spread to all 50 states, infecting dairy cattle, poultry farms and 61 humans across the country.
The virus is spreading among animals, while viral mutations raise concerns about potential adaptation to human hosts.
Newsweek has created a map showing states where respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases are surging.
There have already been at least 1.9 million illnesses, 23,000 hospitalizations and just under a thousand deaths from the flu ...
The CDC has revealed the red flags it is monitoring for that suggest that bird flu was about to become the world's next pandemic.
CDC reported 91 cases of norovirus, more commonly known as the stomach flu, which is over double the highest number recorded ...
The CDC still reports the current public health risk for the virus as low, and person-to-person transmission has not been ...
The virus in the first severe human bird flu case in the U.S. was found to have mutated. Newsweek's live blog is closed.