Children enjoy chickens at a past Calaveras County Fair & Jumping Frog Jubilee. Bird flu in January 2025 prompted a ban on ...

The nation's first human death due to the bird flu occurred this month, the latest development in a global outbreak that, ...

America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At ...

Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human ...

The U.S. has developed a bird flu vaccine that can be prepared when needed. It’s not currently available because health ...

A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

Basic public health protections help augment our national security protections,” particularly when it comes to emerging ...

Wild birds can carry H5N1 without showing any symptoms and spread it other other flocks and animals like dairy cows or cats.

This means when Moffitt is at the grocery store, she picks up extra gallons of water to store in case of an emergency. She ...

Elsewhere in Europe, avian influenza is confirmed in poultry flocks in Poland, England, Portugal, Hungary and Germany.

H5N1 has infected 66 people in the United States since early 2024, mostly causing mild illness. A Louisiana man was the first to get severely sick.