There have been dozens of confirmed human cases of bird flu in the U.S. this year. Experts discuss the symptoms, risks and ...

No FDA-approved rapid tests exist that specifically test for H5N1, and the first near-point-of-care test for mpox was ...

A 2023 avian flu outbreak decimated a Caspian tern colony on Rat Island and spread to harbor seals, posing a new threat to local wildlife. A 2023 epidemiological study revealed that 56% of a large ...

A teenager in British Columbia is critically ill with Canada's first case of the H5N1 bird flu strain. While the virus has ...

British Columbia health officials have yet to identify a likely source of the infection, though none of the teen's contacts ...

New CDC research suggests that a small but significant percentage of dairy farmers working near infected cows have recently ...

The situation is “horrifying,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University. “The idea that we ...

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM State Epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Kemble said Thursday that the state Department of Health is not yet able to determine whether the specimen collected last week ...

Smith: Since 2022, the U.S. poultry industry has been battling a particularly persistent strain of H5N1, or avian influenza, ...

A teenager in Canada is critically ill with the country's first human case of H5N1 bird flu. Health officials aren't sure how ...

The sounds of barking elephant seals are again in the air along the breeding grounds of Península Valdés, Argentina—but it's ...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has also been testing milk for signs of H5N1 in dairy cows. Canada has had no ...