The Madera County Department of Public Health working with state and federal health agencies has identified two human cases ...

Smith: Since 2022, the U.S. poultry industry has been battling a particularly persistent strain of H5N1, or avian influenza, ...

Some rural Kansas counties are offering free flu vaccines targeting farm workers amid an ongoing nationwide bird flu outbreak ...

Wastewater in several Californian cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, recently tested positive for bird flu. But ...

There have been dozens of confirmed human cases of bird flu in the U.S. this year. Experts discuss the symptoms, risks and ...

H5N1 avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, has infected more than 100 million birds in the U.S. and almost 500 ...

A teenager in Canada is critically ill with the country's first human case of H5N1 bird flu. Health officials aren't sure how ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also considers the risk of H5N1 virus infection to the public to be low, and is using flu surveillance to monitor for H5 bird flu activity in people ...

The CDC collaborates with diagnostics industry leaders to develop a rapid, point-of-need test for avian influenza A/H5 in ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection – among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.

Some species of migratory birds could transmit variants of bird flu in Hawaii, such as golden plovers, or kolea, which carry ...

A Canadian teen who is in critical condition after contracting H5N1 bird flu was infected with a version of the virus that is different from the one circulating in U.S. cattle.