Influenza cases reached their highest activity levels in the last 15 years this month, and Texas emergency department visits are also heightened, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

After his controversial nomination as HHS Secretary, all eyes were on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as he addressed a measles outbreak in Texas that has affected over 160 people across 10 states. NBC News Health & Medical Reporter Erika Edwards reports on this and the postponing of a key CDC meeting that could hold up the production of next year’s flu vaccine.

The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is having a huge impact on cervical cancer prevention among young women, a U.S. government report published Thursday suggests. Why it matters: The CDC report shows that rates of precancerous lesions among women aged 20-24 screened for cervical cancer dropped by about 80% from 2008 to 2022.

The CDC said the last confirmed measles death in the United States was in 2015, before this latest outbreak killed an unvaccinated child in Texas.

Officials say the school-aged child was not vaccinated and was hospitalized in Lubbock last week after testing positive for measles. This is the first death in the U.S. caused by measles since 2015, according to the CDC.

New numbers from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) show high activity for respiratory illnesses in Colorado.

The measles outbreak in Texas has quickly grown to 146 cases. One child has died. NBC News answers readers' questions about the disease, vaccines and government response.

Twenty-five years after the disease was declared “eliminated” in the U.S., cases are rising again, with a Texas outbreak now spreading to New Mexico. Measles cases continue to rise in the United States nearly two and a half decades after the virus had been declared eliminated in the country.

CDC staff received an email this week telling them to avoid using more than a dozen terms or words-- including "health equity," "race," "bias," and "disparity" -- in their annual performance evaluations;

When the local hospital warned of a brewing measles outbreak, Kaleigh Brantner urged fellow residents of this rural West Texas community to beware of vaccinating their children. Two weeks later, her unvaccinated 7-year-old son came home from school with a fever.

A patient who came to a hospital emergency room in Montgomery County is Pennsylvania's first confirmed measles case this year amid a national surge of the highly contagious virus, according to health officials.