Public health experts are urging vigilance amid recent reports of severe bird flu cases in two North American patients.

As the seasonal flu picks up, there are even more opportunities for the bird flu to acquire mutations as the different ...

The administration said it was committing $306 million toward improving hospital preparedness, early-stage research on ...

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

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

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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is keeping close eye on pandemic indicators amid bird flu cases arising in the ...

A virologist explains that why this probably isn’t the big one — but that it’s a sign of bad things happening with the virus.

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 ...

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.

All year, I’ve been keeping tabs on the H5N1 avian flu outbreak in dairy cattle and birds in the United States. As a ...