In recent months, bird flu has started raising red flags among scientists and public health officials. Apoorva Mandavilli, a New York Times reporter who covers infectious diseases, explains why we ...

A bird-flu pandemic is far from inevitable. But health experts are closely monitoring an outbreak that could quickly escalate ...

As a growing number of cats have gotten sick or died after consuming raw pet food or raw milk contaminated with the H5N1 virus, health officials have advised pet food companies to take extra ...

The Mississippi State Department of Health confirmed the first pediatric flu death of the 2024-25 season on Friday, Jan. 24.

Could the threat of another worldwide pandemic be on the way? On Jan. 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first American, a man in Louisiana, had died from severe avian ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — At least 30 people have been injured in a ski lift accident at the Spanish resort of Astún, in the ...

BALTIMORE — The widening U.S. bird flu outbreak has made its way to Maryland, which has counted two cases on commercial poultry farms — one in Caroline County and another in Queen Anne’s County — ...

The agency says labs should accelerate testing on patients hospitalized with the flu within 24 hours of their admission.

A highly contagious disease is killing ducks and other birds across Harris County and Texas, the Texas Parks and Wildlife ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect ...

The latest confirmation likely reflects follow-up testing of a San Francisco child whose exposure to the virus is still under ...

One of the earliest strains of bird flu isolated from a human in Texas shows a unique constellation of mutations that enable ...