Flu Season

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated the flu hospitalized 400,000 Americans in 2019 and killed 22,000. Meanwhile, COVID-19 has…

Health officials are urging Kentuckians to get a flu vaccine as the start of the 2019-2020 season kicks off on Sunday.The flu season usually lasts until…

Influenza sickness remains prevalent across the Commonwealth. Officials with the State Department for Public Health report flu activity in Kentucky is…

Kentucky is experiencing some of the highest rates of flu in the nation with more than 3,100 confirmed cases.Kevin Hall is the spokesperson for the…

Health officials and federal data said flu activity in a Kentucky city is on the rise during the 2018-19 season.Louisville Metro Department of Public…

The state’s first flu-related death for the new influenza season has occurred in Lexington.Fayette County Health Department Spokesman Kevin Hall said it’s…

Levels of influenza-like illnesses are at an all time high, and doctors' offices and medical care centers are seeing a huge surge of patients not seen…

State health officials are now describing flu activity across Kentucky as an epidemic. The Commonwealth is in its sixth consecutive week of widespread…

The agency scrapped plans to tell Americans what to do in a nuclear attack. Instead, it will focus on the flu. The decision came before Saturday's false alert of a ballistic missile attack.

In California, the flu has struck early and hard this season. Health experts aren't sure why. The state's higher temperatures typically result in a later flu peak there than in other parts of the U.S.