Humans are unlikely to get sick, but will pets be affected? Are egg prices rising with the spread of bird flu among, well, birds?

A 13-year-old girl in Canada became so sick with H5N1, or bird flu, in late 2024 that she had to be put on a ventilator.

Trump's pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Department of Health and Human Services secretary is a well-known vaccine skeptic. Although RFK Jr. has insisted he is not anti-vax, he has repeatedly pushed ...

By the end of the first quarter of 2025, the U.S. will have enough doses to vaccinate 5 million people, if necessary, a spokesperson for the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response — ...

Previous seasonal flu infections and vaccinations may protect us against infection from the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu outbreak.

After Gov. Gavin Newsom last week declared an emergency stemming from bird flu’s spread in dairy herds, local public health ...

Farmers will now have to prove that they did everything possible to prevent outbreaks before they can receive governmental indemnity payments. Also in the news: Combined bird and human flu could have ...

Keep your poultry housing area clean. Don’t share equipment (such as egg cartons) with others. There is a bird flu vaccine, but you can't make an appointment to get it. The FDA approved the ...

Oregon reported its first confirmed human case of H5N1 bird flu, in a poultry farm worker who caught ... the United States has a stockpile of candidate vaccines for bird flu, and a stockpile ...

Why the results surprised anyone is itself a surprise. After the state of California began testing dairy herds for highly ...

In response to the spread of bird flu in raw milk, the USDA announced a national strategy requiring milk samples nationwide ...