While the basic information about flu vaccination remains on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, information campaigns that promoted flu vaccination to the general public ...

And this year is brutal," said LaPook. Every season, the CDC's scientists test a sample of flu viruses collected from labs around the country against strains that health authorities had picked out ...

Flu activity remains elevated nationally but has decreased for two consecutive weeks as of Feb. 22, the CDC announced. Advertisement "Data to date suggests the [flu] season has peaked," the CDC said.