"This type of prevention can be very useful in controlling infection outbreaks and containing the bird flu pandemic," said an immunologist.

While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, there has been for the first time ever a reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States. This occurred on a duck farm in California ...

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Under new rules, poultry facilities seeking indemnity payments after repeated bird flu infections must show biosecurity precautions ...

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Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people, caused ...

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The spread of H5N1 into new species alarms researchers who say it could reassort in a new species, like pigs, leading to more ...

Trump's pick for health secretary has a record of attacking vaccines. In fact he's even taken direct aim at bird flu shots.

So far, Shah said, national influenza surveillance has collected 83,000 specimens. Of those, just 3 have come back positive for H5 bird flu. “It’s small, but nevertheless significant,” Shah ...

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) on Thursday confirmed the state’s first pediatric influenza-related death of the 2024-25 season. DHS added there have been 16 pediatric flu ...