Updated vaccines, proper hygiene and staying home when you're sick can help prevent the spread of respiratory illnesses this ...

The new guidance comes after blood tests for 115 farmworkers in Michigan and Colorado showed that eight workers — or 7% — had ...

Secondly, the CDC is now recommending offering oseltamivir – a prescription medication to treat influenza that's often marketed under the name Tamiflu – to asymptomatic workers who have ...

Ferrets—while commonly used in influenza research—are not a perfect parallel for humans. And the studied strain is similar ...

Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) data show only 17% of Wisconsinites have received a flu shot this season, and ...

A teenager has been left in critical condition after contracting the first presumptive human case of avian influenza in ...

A British Columbia teenager is in critical condition with Canada's first presumptive human case of avian influenza. Officials ...

Following a CDC study showing bird flu exposure among dairy workers, health officials recommend increased testing and ...

As H5N1 bird flu continues to spread around the US, health officials recently found that 7 percent of dairy workers tested on ...

Health officials on Wednesday confirmed bird flu in a British Columbia teen and said the virus was related to a poultry ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is updating its recommendations for testing, treatment and protection ...

The CDC study provides the largest window to date into how the bird virus first detected in March in dairy cows may be spreading to people. It suggests that the virus has infected more humans than ...