The U.S. government failed to eliminate the virus on dairy farms when it was confined to a handful of states. Now at least 875 herds across 16 states have tested positive.
The rise of bird flu across farms in California has raised questions about the virus and its potential threat to humans.
Previous seasonal flu infections and vaccinations may protect us against infection from the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu outbreak.
More than 70 percent of California’s dairy cow herds are infected with bird flu. Here’s what to know - Nearly 70 people have ...
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Avian influenza has spread far beyond the nation's birds, infecting all manner of creatures from zoo animals, wild mammals, ...
A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the first severe case of the ...
Exposure to the virus in utero may have affected children’s development, adding to a list of health problems emerging in the ...
Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s candidates for federal health agencies have promoted policies and goals that put them at odds with one another or with Trump’s choice to run the ...
When, where and how the H5N1 bird flu virus may evolve and its capacity to spark a pandemic is hard to predict — in part, ...
Public concern over bird flu ratcheted up this week as the H5N1 virus continued its sweep through the nation's dairy and poultry farms and the first American was hospitalized with a severe infection.