The U.S’s biggest dairy-producing state is being squeezed by the recent outbreak of bird flu, which also affects cattle—and ...

The Department of Health and Human Services under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken unprecedented steps to change how vaccines ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

Five House members from California’s San Joaquin Valley led by Rep. Jim Costa, a Democrat, sent Agriculture Secretary Brooke ...

A new COVID variant is causing people to experience such severe sore throats that they say it feels like swallowing razor blades.

Facing high egg prices, the Trump administration is considering vaccinating poultry against bird flu, but H5N1 is already out of barn. It’s infected nearly 500 species of wild birds and mammals, ...

Bird flu ripping through California dairy farms 04:04. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now working with California on a project that is offering gift cards to encourage people to ...

Researchers evaluated the safety and immune response of a poultry-derived H5N1 avian influenza vaccine in black vultures and critically endangered California condors. The findings support the use ...

As of December 30, there were 66 confirmed cases of H5N1 avian influenza infection in humans in 2024, with about half in patients in California, according to CDC data.The U.S. reported its first ...

The current strain of the H5N1 virus, which is subtype 2.3.4.4b, has so far caused mild symptoms in the known human cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, such as ...

With a virus like rabies, wildlife managers will sometimes disperse an oral vaccine through food to control local outbreaks among animals. With H5N1, Andrew Pekosz , a virologist at Johns Hopkins ...

The H5N1 virus has spread widely across poultry bird populations. ... the most affected states are California and Washington, ... We know how to make vaccines that work against influenza viruses.