The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season — many of them so sudden that families are ...

Fears the world is heading towards another pandemic are growing, as new data shows the spread of the deadly bird flu virus ...

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

Today, we look at eggs and the rise of avian flu that began in 2023. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, in March, the ...

The study’s results indicated the cumulative incidence of influenza – or the number of new cases divided by the total number ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive ...

One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in the United States was reported in a Texas dairy worker. There have been at least 70 cases since then.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has reported 6 more H5N1 avian flu ...

The National Institutes of Health’s sweeping cuts of grants that fund scientific research are inflicting pain almost ...

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

Recent testing has detected Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in mammal species in six Texas counties, state wildlife ...