President Joe Biden's outgoing administration announced on Friday that it will allocate $306 million to bolster the nation's ...

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

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

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

Feeling under the weather? Local health officials are tracking a variety of viruses making rounds in the community right now.

Doctors say the case of a teen left in critical condition shows H5N1 "can cause severe human illness." Mutations in the virus are deepening concerns about the spread of H5N1.

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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