Some rural Kansas counties are offering free flu vaccines targeting farm workers amid an ongoing nationwide bird flu outbreak ...

If the new administration embraces proposals to cut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's budget and its mission, ...

State health officials are investigating possible sources of the H5 avian influenza virus detected for the first time in a wastewater sample from Oahu. The Hawaii Department of Health said the ...

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

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

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

Cases of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy and poultry workers have largely been mild. However, a new case in a British Columbia ...

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

While the exact strain is yet to be determined, authorities have presumed the virus is H5N1 – the strain currently ...

Last year, the combination of COVID-19, seasonal influenza, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) brought the “triple-demic.” ...

A teen in Canada may be the first person to catch an H5 bird flu virus within the country. Health officials are now working ...