The agency says it is looking for red flags, but the risk to the public still remains low. Meanwhile, a Louisiana patient with a severe case of bird flu showed worrying mutations in the samples ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified mutations in bird flu infections in a hospitalized patient in ...

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In coming years, the bird flu may cost billions of dollars more in expenses and losses. Worse, the outbreak poses the threat ...

The CDC has revealed the red flags it is monitoring for that suggest that bird flu was about to become the world's next ...

The risk of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, is on the rise, along with that of other illnesses including the flu, stomach flu and COVID-19.

Most human cases of bird flu in North America have been mild, a fact that’s underscored by a new study of the first 46 ...

In 2024, at least 66 human cases of bird flu have been reported in the United States, each one raising the risk of another ...

The CDC detected a change in the strain that would allow the virus to more easily travel through human airways.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies are closely monitoring the spread of the HN51 avian ...

The CDC previously confirmed the first severe human case of bird flu in Louisiana, but now the CDC has confirmed a virus ...

So far, the H5N1 virus isn't transmitted between people — but the CDC has found a mutation in a human case "concerning" ...