Over the past week, a series of developments have reaffirmed the imminent danger of an H5N1 “bird flu” pandemic, for which ...

Levels of influenza nationwide are now at the highest they have been since the peak of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, according ...

San Mateo County public health officials reported finding H5N1 bird flu in a pet cat and a backyard poultry flock.

Newswatch 16's Kerry Kearns spoke with a doctor about bird flu and steps you can take to help prevent it. PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Cases of bird flu, or avian flu, are rising in parts of the country. The ...

New York state is shuttering all live bird markets in New York City, and Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk counties, following the detection of bird flu in some poultry.

For the first time since 1952, publication of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report was halted. It returned on Feb.

That said, the cost of eggs isn't the only issue at stake with an avian flu epidemic: There are a lot of questions about ...

The variant of bird flu that killed a Louisiana resident has now been found in dairy cows. Until now, the human cases of bird ...

By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar ...

Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.

When it comes to the potential of H5N1 avian flu picking up mutations that might lead to human-to-human spread, that "train has already left the station," warns 1 infectious disease expert.

As California's Central Valley makes headlines for the growing number of people testing positive for the bird flu from exposure to dairy cows, Rais Vohra, MD, professor at UC San Francisco, Fresno and ...