The state health department warned that delaying hepatitis B vaccination could lead to thousands of new infections and lifelong liver disease.

The CDC’s vaccine advisors, led by a newly named chair, will discuss making more changes to the childhood vaccine schedule during a 2-day meeting that starts on Thursday. The meeting was scheduled to take place in October but was postponed because of the government shutdown.

Recent Trump administration cuts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has thrown the future of Michigan’s sickle cell disease registry into doubt. The Michigan Sickle Cell Data Collection Program, a collaboration between the University of Michigan and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official says surging vaccines to Michigan would not help the hard-hit state control the latest COVID-19 wave that has strained its hospitals and is raising concerns nationwide because ...

The strain of bird flu that infected a Michigan dairy farmworker is capable of airborne transmission, amping up concerns about its potential to spark a new pandemic, according to a research letter published in June. In recent years, the H5N1 avian ...

CHICAGO -- Two people have caught flu strains that normally circulate in pigs, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday, and pig exhibits at agricultural fairs appear to be to blame. Each patient became ill with flu-like symptoms ...

The variant spreading quickly in the United Kingdom could predict U.S. patterns, while Michigan's vaccination rates remain low at just 20.6% for flu shots.