A new strain of bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI) has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) reported the outbreak of the ...

Thousands of new bird flu cases have emerged in recent months among New York flocks, including in parks and even backyard coops. The spread set off a fresh round of public health alerts among ...

More than 126,800 birds in New York have been affected by the avian flu since 2022, including thousands of new infections uncovered in recent months in New York parks, commercial flocks and ...

The circulating bird flu has become “widespread” in the Bay State, as officials believe the virus has killed 500 to 1,000 wild birds across the region. And the total number of dead birds is ...

Flu activity during and after the COVID-19 pandemic has bucked historic trends, swinging wildly between record-shattering lows and highs in the number of cases. The current flu season got a late ...

Why a teenager’s bird-flu infection is ringing alarm bells for scientists Although many of the infections have been mild, emerging data indicate that variants of the avian influenza virus H5N1 ...

Public health officials are closely monitoring the latest bird flu outbreak that has sickened or killed millions of birds, chicken and cattle in the U.S. The virus, also known as avian influenza or ...

Dec. 13, 2024 — Influenza or flu virus remains infectious in refrigerated raw milk for up to five days, according to a new study. The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a ...

An antibody that can bind to many different types of influenza virus prevented macaques from getting seriously sick, and dying, from a highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 bird flu. The findings could ...

Scientists Design Workaround That Improves Response to Flu Vaccine Dec. 19, 2024 — Stitching together four molecules found in the standard flu vaccine ensures an immune response to all of them ...

Bird flu poses an increasing pandemic threat as it becomes more adaptive, jumping to humans, pets and zoo animals, Europe’s disease and food agencies warned on Wednesday. They are urging countries to ...

THANK YOU. FLU CASES AND FLU DEATHS IN SOUTH CAROLINA ARE INCREASING. THAT’S ACCORDING TO NEW DATA FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. THE DEPARTMENT’S LATEST FLU REPORT FOR ...