The Butte County Public Health Department is warning the public about Bird Flu detection in a backyard poultry flock in the ...

A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated ...

Though H5N1 has been circulating nationwide in wild birds, domestic poultry, and mammals since 2022, you may have only been ...

“For example, if a human gets infected with a bird flu and also carries a human influenza A virus, these two viruses can ...

The Oregon Department of Agriculture said tests confirmed a genetic match between the virus in the turkey in the raw and ...

Gov. Newsom declared a state of emergency as the virus continues to infect dairy herds across the country — including more ...

The holidays came with a side of flu for many Americans, with 40 states reporting high or very high levels of illness last week, according to the latest government health data. “A lot of flu out ...

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

While cases of bird flu in humans have steadily climbed since last fall, health officials maintain the risk to humans is low ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday it will award $306 million in additional funding to monitor ...

The Biden administration is committing $306 million to strengthen the nation's response to the H5N1 avian influenza, according to a Jan. 3 HHS news release shared with Becker's. The commitment aims to ...

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