Undergraduate and graduate physics students at UMaine Hess Lab in Orono are currently working on research that if proven, ...

A dairy worker in Nevada has been confirmed to be infected by a new bird flu strain found to be spreading among cows in the ...

One in every three flu tests came back positive last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Some experts say it’s the worst flu season they’ve seen nationally in the last 15 years. In Massachusetts, recent ...

An experimental vaccine for kidney cancer is off to a promising start. In data from a Phase I trial released this week, the ...

Health officials have also reported cases of H5N1 in wild birds and dairy cattle, highlighting the virus’s ability to jump ...

While the virus hasn’t made a sustained leap into humans, vaccines and treatments are being developed ahead of an outbreak.

Scientists have developed a vaccine that fights against bird flu, but it isn’t available to the public since human disease and death in the U.S. have been rare so far. The first version of the vaccine ...

The Ulster County Health Department says bird flu killed about 50 chickens and ducks at a local farm. There are currently no ...

The case of bird flu, aka highly pathogenic avian influenza, was detected on a 50,000 chicken flock commercial poultry farm amid a nationwide outbreak.

First U.S. detection of virulent H5N9 strain, at a California duck farm, draws scrutiny as evidence of genetic reassortment ...