The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

Both bird flu and most cases of seasonal flu now circulating are considered type A flu. ... CDC expects more than 200,000 people will be infected by the end of the season.

It is the seventh case of the year and is part of an overall rise in H5N1 infections in Cambodia since late 2023. The patient ...

Purdue University researchers now have developed an innovative, paper-based diagnostic test for rapidly detecting avian ...

The Trump administration is eroding national pandemic flu defenses as it guts health agencies, cuts research and health ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

A CDC representative told the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices that measles cases have hit a 'plateau' in the U.S ...

H5N1 was believed to spread primarily through direct contact with infected animals or their bodily fluids, but the new ...

During his Senate confirmation hearings, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested he wouldn’t undermine vaccines. “I am not going to go into HHS and impose my preordained opinions on anybody ...

Within days, Crescent Duck Farm, a century-old institution and the last duck farm remaining in a New York region once ...

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