The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday it’s no longer recommending the flu vaccine for all children.

Federal health officials reduced the childhood immunization schedule from 18 to 11, removing vaccines for RSV, COVID-19 and hepatitis A, among others.

Officials with Children’s Mercy in Kansas City said this week they would instead follow The American Academy of Pediatric’s recommendations for childhood vaccinations.

Flu activity could continue to increase in the U.S. over the next few weeks, according to a top flu epidemiologist at the CDC.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has overhauled the United States’ childhood immunization schedule. On Monday, the federal agency revealed new recommendations, reducing the number of diseases that all American children should be vaccinated against to 11,

CDC officials said the revisions follow a directive from the Trump administration to align U.S. vaccination policy more closely with peer nations, such as Denmark, that administer fewer routine childhood vaccines while reporting comparable health outcomes.

Oregon and other western states will follow vaccine recommendations from a leading medical group instead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after the federal health agency on

Here are five things parents and caregivers should know about the new vaccination schedule changes for children. The new guidelines no longer universally recommend children receive vaccines for rotavirus, hepatitis A and hepatitis B, meningitis (meningococcal disease), RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), COVID, and influenza (the flu).

Cases of norovirus have been on the rise since mid-October across the country and in Texas, according to wastewater monitoring and U.S. Centers for

The spread of influenza-like illness has reached "very high" levels in Michigan, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.